Using Jackson to Serialize JSON

I had developed a library which serialized/de-serialized objects to/from XML. Now I want to port this library to Android and the XML library I used doesn't seem to play nice with Android. I thought of trying out using JSON instead, and I came across Jackson.

Here's an example:

import java.util.LinkedHashMap;

import org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper;

public class JSONTest {

 private static class Account {
  private String id;
  private String name;

  public String getId() {
   return id;
  }

  public void setId(String id) {
   this.id = id;
  }

  public String getName() {
   return name;
  }

  public void setName(String name) {
   this.name = name;
  }

 }

 public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
  LinkedHashMap<String, Account> obj = new LinkedHashMap<String, Account>();
  Account acc = new Account();
  
  acc.setId("1");
  acc.setName("Chase");
  obj.put("account1", acc);

  acc.setId("2");
  acc.setName("Bank of America");
  obj.put("account2", acc);


  ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
  System.out.println(mapper.writeValueAsString(obj));
 }
}

This generates the following output :

{"account1":{"id":"2","name":"Bank of America"},"account2":{"id":"2","name":"Bank of America"}}