In order to use the @ResponseBody and @RequestBody annotations in Spring MVC to translate HTTP messages to JSON objects and vice versa, I need to add the MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter to the list of HttpMessageConverters as such:

@Configuration
@EnableWebMvc
@ComponentScan("spring.mvc")
public class MyWebConfig implements WebMvcConfigurer {

    @Override
    public void configureMessageConverters(List<HttpMessageConverter<?>> converters) {
        converters.add(new MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter());
    }
}

Additionally, I had to add the following dependency to my build.gradle file:

implementation 'com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:2.14.1'

my question is: why doesn’t the package in which the MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter class included (spring-web) includes the jackson-databind:2.14.1 artifact as a dependency? Or at least – where is it documented that I need it in my classpath?