say we have a POJO in which we can’t add @Annotations to

@Data
public class Pojo {
	private String firstName;
	private String lastName;
	private Integer age;
}

Methods

Programmatically 1

mapper.writeValueAsString(JsonView.with(list)
	.onClass(Pojo.class, match()
		.exclude("*")
		.include("lastName", "age")));

Annotation (Per Class)

we create a MixIn class

@Data
abstract class PojoMixIn {
	@JsonIgnore
	private String name;
}

configure ObjectMapper

objectMapper.getSerializationConfig().addMixInAnnotations(Pojo.class, PojoMixIn.class);
objectMapper.addMixIn(Pojo.class, PojoMixIn.class); // for Jackson 2.5+

Annotation (All Classes)

If you want to ALWAYS exclude certain properties for any class, you could use setMixInResolver method

@JsonIgnoreProperties({"id", "index", "version"})
abstract class MixIn { }

mapper.setMixInResolver(new ClassIntrospector.MixInResolver() {
	@Override
    public Class<?> findMixInClassFor(Class<?> cls) {
		return MixIn.class;  
	}

	@Override
	public ClassIntrospector.MixInResolver copy() {
		return this;
	}
});