Stevo

I think I know what this is about, but for the sake of clarity, I'd appreciate if the issue were a bit more explicit about what needs to happen and...

A crnk built-in `ExceptionMapper` that catches (certain) `JsonProcessingException`s should do the trick, no?

Check this http://www.crnk.io/documentation/ Created an issue for that in crnk-web project. https://github.com/crnk-project/crnk-web/issues/2

We are working on a larger api spec and use gulp inclusion, templates, hercule etc. Comments would help explain what's happening, why and how.

Huh, I noticed that a sources.jar file exists (https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/software/aws/rds/aws-mysql-jdbc/1.1.0/), but it appears that my IDE isn't happy with it. This could be a problem on my end, I need to...

Doesn't seem to be an IDE problem. I can see the source code for class software.aws.rds.jdbc.mysql.Driver, but it appears for everything in package software.aws.rds.jdbc.mysql.shading the source code is unavailable.

Thanks @sergiyvamz. I don't understand what's happening exactly, but the result of that build process is: in my project, I only see class `software.aws.rds.jdbc.mysql.shading.com.mysql.cj.jdbc.ConnectionImpl` (to give one example), which -...

Please fix this. Like already said in the OP, an `IllegalStateException` can't be considered the graceful way to shut down.

You could check out Yahoo's Elide @mwojtko1 if you are starting from scratch. https://github.com/yahoo/elide Or more alternatives here https://jsonapi.org/implementations/#server-libraries-java