diff --git a/jackson/pom.xml b/jackson/pom.xml
index f63ec08b48..77e538bf3d 100644
--- a/jackson/pom.xml
+++ b/jackson/pom.xml
@@ -22,6 +22,13 @@
             <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
             <version>2.4</version>
         </dependency>
+		<!--jackson for xml-->
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat</groupId>
+			<artifactId>jackson-dataformat-xml</artifactId>
+			<version>2.7.4</version>
+		</dependency>
+
 
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
diff --git a/jackson/src/test/java/com/baeldung/jackson/xml/TestXMLSerializeDeserialize.java b/jackson/src/test/java/com/baeldung/jackson/xml/TestXMLSerializeDeserialize.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..92d0bd13d4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/jackson/src/test/java/com/baeldung/jackson/xml/TestXMLSerializeDeserialize.java
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+package com.baeldung.jackson.xml;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
+
+import java.io.BufferedReader;
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileInputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.InputStreamReader;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.xml.XmlMapper;
+
+public class TestXMLSerializeDeserialize {
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenJavaSerializedToXmlStr_thenCorrect() throws JsonProcessingException {
+        XmlMapper xmlMapper = new XmlMapper();
+        String xml = xmlMapper.writeValueAsString(new SimpleBean());
+        assertNotNull(xml);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenJavaSerializedToXmlFile_thenCorrect() throws IOException {
+        XmlMapper xmlMapper = new XmlMapper();
+        xmlMapper.writeValue(new File("target/simple_bean.xml"), new SimpleBean());
+        File file = new File("target/simple_bean.xml");
+        assertNotNull(file);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenJavaGotFromXmlStr_thenCorrect() throws IOException {
+        XmlMapper xmlMapper = new XmlMapper();
+        SimpleBean value = xmlMapper.readValue(
+                "<SimpleBean><x>1</x><y>2</y></SimpleBean>", SimpleBean.class);
+        assertTrue(value.getX() == 1 && value.getY() == 2);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenJavaGotFromXmlFile_thenCorrect() throws IOException {
+        File file = new File("src/test/resources/simple_bean.xml");
+        XmlMapper xmlMapper = new XmlMapper();
+        String xml = inputStreamToString(new FileInputStream(file));
+        SimpleBean value = xmlMapper.readValue(xml, SimpleBean.class);
+        assertTrue(value.getX() == 1 && value.getY() == 2);
+    }
+
+    private static String inputStreamToString(InputStream is) throws IOException {
+        BufferedReader br;
+        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
+
+        String line;
+        br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
+        while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
+            sb.append(line);
+        }
+        br.close();
+        return sb.toString();
+    }
+}
+
+class SimpleBean {
+    private int x = 1;
+    private int y = 2;
+
+    public int getX() {
+        return x;
+    }
+
+    public void setX(int x) {
+        this.x = x;
+    }
+
+    public int getY() {
+        return y;
+    }
+
+    public void setY(int y) {
+        this.y = y;
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/jackson/src/test/resources/simple_bean.xml b/jackson/src/test/resources/simple_bean.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7829ea35a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/jackson/src/test/resources/simple_bean.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+<SimpleBean>
+ <x>1</x>
+ <y>2</y>
+</SimpleBean>
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