Well that was fast. I didn’t expect the day after the post to have an update but here it is. One thing I love about open source it is possible to find answers quickly. So it turns out that this is not in fact a bug. Apparently Jackson 2 aims for a Java 6 compatibility level. As a result of this they can’t include Java 8 features in the baseline as that would break compatibility. So they have a module to use the Java 8 features that you can bring into Maven with the following settings:


<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.module</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-module-parameter-names</artifactId>
</dependency>


Once I did that everything started working. I appreciate how quickly the Jackson team responded to my ticket to help me out.