[[kotlin-requirements]]
= Requirements
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Spring Framework supports Kotlin 1.7+ and requires
https://search.maven.org/artifact/org.jetbrains.kotlin/kotlin-stdlib[`kotlin-stdlib`]
and https://search.maven.org/artifact/org.jetbrains.kotlin/kotlin-reflect[`kotlin-reflect`]
to be present on the classpath. They are provided by default if you bootstrap a Kotlin project on
https://start.spring.io/#!language=kotlin&type=gradle-project[start.spring.io].

NOTE: The {jackson-github-org}/jackson-module-kotlin[Jackson Kotlin module] is required
for serializing or deserializing JSON data for Kotlin classes with Jackson, so make sure to add the
`com.fasterxml.jackson.module:jackson-module-kotlin` dependency to your project if you have such need.
It is automatically registered when found in the classpath.




