1 /**
2 Contains extended support for "external" packages: things that
3 may or may not be present in runtime environment, but that are
4 commonly enough used so that explicit support can be added.
5 <p>
6 Currently supported extensions include:
7 <ul>
8  <li>Support for Java 1.5 core XML datatypes: the reason these are
9 considered "external" is that some platforms that claim to be 1.5 conformant
10 are only partially so (Google Android, GAE) and do not included these
11  types.
12   </li>
13  <li>Joda time. This package has superior date/time handling functionality,
14 and is thus supported. However, to minimize forced dependencies this
15 support is added as extension so that Joda is not needed by Jackson
16 itself: but if it is present, its core types are supported to some
17 degree
18   </li>
19 </ul>
20 
21 */
22 
23 package com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ext;
24