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[15:12:36 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> you get a string if the rest API writes to response.getWriter()
[15:13:52 CDT(-0500)] <drewwills> no to which? 
[15:13:53 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> the only consideration on the Jackson stuff is how many exteral deps do we want?
[15:13:59 CDT(-0500)] <athena> yeah
[15:14:01 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> no it isn't a problem, 
[15:14:04 CDT(-0500)] <drewwills> good
[15:14:11 CDT(-0500)] <athena> it seems to me like it's probably not the end of the world to have just jackson as a dependency
[15:14:21 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> well I'd go one step further
[15:14:22 CDT(-0500)] <athena> i guess i'd be more worried about relying heavily on particular spring versions?
[15:14:30 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> I'd have two APIs a plain one
[15:14:35 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> and a Spring 3 one