title: A better alternative to Jersey/Jackson for building JSON REST APIs?
body: <p>I need to build the server side of a JSON-REST API, and I've been playing with Jersey to do it (using it's JSON-POJO mapping feature).  </p>
  
  <p>The problem is that even testing the simplest possible use-case has required several questions here on SO, and quite a bit of hunting around.  In short, it's not a very fluid API in the style of, say, JSoup, it appears to be a tool that comes from the era where everything was XML, and then it was retrofitted for JSON.  </p>
  
  <p>You can see this, for example, in the requirement that POJO objects need to be annotated with @XmlRootElement even though nothing I am doing involves XML.</p>
  
  <p>I'm wondering if there are other libraries, perhaps more recent, that I should consider for this that might be easier to use than Jersey?</p>