upgrade to newer jackson-parent

Author: cowtowncoder

pom.xml

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson</groupId>
     <artifactId>jackson-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>2.7</version>
+    <version>2.8-rc1-SNAPSHOT</version>
   </parent>
 
   <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
   </scm>
 
   <properties>
-    <!-- 03-Feb-2016, tatu: Retain Java6/JDK1.6 compatibility for streaming for Jackson 2.8 -->
+    <!-- 29-Apr-2016, tatu: Retain Java6/JDK1.6 compatibility for streaming for Jackson 2.8 -->
     <javac.src.version>1.6</javac.src.version>
     <javac.target.version>1.6</javac.target.version>
 
@@ -36,6 +36,14 @@ com.fasterxml.jackson.core.*;version=${project.version}
     <packageVersion.package>${project.groupId}.json</packageVersion.package>
   </properties>
 
+  <dependencies>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>junit</groupId>
+      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+  </dependencies>
+
   <build>
     <plugins>
       <plugin>