codahale/dropwizard — pull request #43 by samperman (2012-03-06 14:07:08+00:00)
Title: Enable downstream projects to customize how Jackson is used

This change allows a dropwizard project to use a subclass of
com.yammer.dropwizard.json.Json as an alternative. This would
enable customizing how jackson is configured or how it is used.

This takes a pretty blunt approach, but should hopefully enable any customizations necessary. The JsonConfiguration object might be a place for finer tuned json configuration in the future.

Our project needs this so we can work around a specific jackson issue we have been running into (http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JACKSON-799)

thanks
sam