Jackson automatic formatting of Joda DateTime to ISO 8601 format

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I was able to get the answer to this from the Jackson user mailing list, and wanted to share with you since it is a newbie issue. From reading the Jackson Date FAQ, I did not realize that extra dependencies and registration are required, but that is the case. It is documented at the git hub project page here https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-datatype-joda

Essentially, I had to add another dependency to a Jackson jar specific to the Joda data type, and then I had to register the use of that module on the object mapper. The code snippets are below.

For my Jackson Joda data type Maven dependency setup I used this:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype</groupId>
    <artifactId>jackson-datatype-joda</artifactId>
    <version>${jackson.version}</version>
</dependency>

To register the Joda serialization/deserialization feature I used this:

ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
objectMapper.registerModule(new JodaModule());
objectMapper.configure(com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.SerializationFeature.
    WRITE_DATES_AS_TIMESTAMPS , false);

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