NoClassDefFoundError JsonAutoDetect while parsing JSON object

Question

I am developing a webapp using Amazon\'s cloud services and I need to make use of JSON objects. How my project is set up is, I have an HTML form where the user will fill in

Answer 1

To expand on @jeffamaphone's excellent answer, for maven users

    com.fasterxml.jackson.core
    jackson-core
    2.7.3



    com.fasterxml.jackson.core
    jackson-databind
    2.7.3



    com.fasterxml.jackson.core
    jackson-annotations
    2.7.3