playframework/Play20 — comment on commit 3d6d9a83b4b69f24bb6b5e02fdb63b0288add211
File: framework/src/play/src/main/scala/play/api/libs/json/Json.scala line 10
By julienrf:

Yes but since in our case `V` is `Any` we need to provide a implicit object of type `Reads[Any]`. But actually my point was to let users use the jerkson built-in `Map[String, Any]` deserializer (instead of deserializing the JSON into `JsValue` and then transforming it into a `Map[String, Any]` using the right `Reads` instances) by exposing a little bit more the jerkson API to the users.
But, after a discussion it seems cleaner, in that specific case, to use the jerkson API as is (since jerkson jars are available) instead of the Play wrapper around it.