This package contains main public API of the core streaming JSON processor: most importantly {@link org.codehaus.jackson.JsonFactory} used for constructing Json parser ({@link org.codehaus.jackson.JsonParser}) and generator ({@link org.codehaus.jackson.JsonParser}) instances.

Public API of the higher-level mapping interfaces ("Mapping API") is found from under {@link org.codehaus.jackson.map} and not included here, except for following base interfaces:

{@link org.codehaus.jackson.JsonNode} is included within Streaming API to support integration of the Tree Model (which is based on JsonNode) with the basic parsers and generators (iff using mapping-supporting factory: which is part of Mapping API, not core)