Currently beam uses jackson directly everywhere, it either messes up environments where another version is here and can't be upgraded or it forces to shade and have a fat app where it is not needed. Using JSON-B will allow to switch the impl and beam will just rely on ~200k of API instead of megs of dependencies making it smoother to integrated in all environments.
Imported from Jira BEAM-3992. Original Jira may contain additional context.
Reported by: romain.manni-bucau.