jackson self reference leading to cycle

Question

I have a problem when converting hibernate objects to JSON with Jackson, because some objects have a self-reference in their definition. The problem is that I don\'t

Answer 1

Use Jackson 2.0 - it handles cyclic references (with @JsonIdentityInfo annotation)

If you cannot add annotations directly to the class then use MixIn annotations. An example here: https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-docs/wiki/JacksonMixInAnnotations