Don't return property when it's an empty list with jackson

I have a class need to be dessrialized using jackson and the class has an collection property. The collection is empty, but not null. Question: How to desersialise the class without empty collection. Sample code below:

class Person
{
    String name;
    List<Event> events;
    //....getter, setter
}

if

person.list = new List<Event>(); 
persion.name = "hello";

then excepted the json would be:

{name: "hello"}

not

{name: "hello", events:[]}

How to make it? Thank you~~

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I have solved this by n1ckolas's advice. Thank you first. My jackson version is 2.1.1, and Spring-3.2.2 import better support for this verson of jackson. Also, this works for both arrays and collection. Below is my configuraion:

<!-- Enables the Spring MVC @Controller programming model -->
<mvc:annotation-driven>
    <mvc:message-converters>
        <bean class="org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter">
            <property name="objectMapper" ref="objectMapper"/>
        </bean>
    </mvc:message-converters>        
</mvc:annotation-driven>

<!--Json Mapper-->
<bean name="objectMapper" class="org.springframework.http.converter.json.Jackson2ObjectMapperFactoryBean" autowire="no">
    <property name="featuresToDisable">
        <list>
            <!--not to return empty colletion-->
            <value type="com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.SerializationFeature">WRITE_EMPTY_JSON_ARRAYS</value>
        </list>
    </property>
</bean>