FasterXML/jackson-databind — pull request #637 by mspiegel (2014-11-27 00:13:18+00:00)
Title: NoClassDefFoundDeserializer for missing classes

This fixes https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-databind/issues/636. The original exception is thrown when a non-empty value for a missing class is deserialized. Empty values can be successfully deserialized. I'll commit a unit test in just a few minutes.