Just for the sake of understanding of others who may not get the whole picture clear following code works for me to find a field and then update it
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
JsonNode rootNode = mapper.readTree(JsonString);
JsonPointer valueNodePointer = JsonPointer.compile("/GrandObj/Obj/field");
JsonPointer containerPointer = valueNodePointer.head();
JsonNode parentJsonNode = rootNode.at(containerPointer);
if (!parentJsonNode.isMissingNode() && parentJsonNode.isObject()) {
ObjectNode parentObjectNode = (ObjectNode) parentJsonNode;
//following will give you just the field name.
//e.g. if pointer is /grandObject/Object/field
//JsonPoint.last() will give you /field
//remember to take out the / character
String fieldName = valueNodePointer.last().toString();
fieldName = fieldName.replace(Character.toString(JsonPointer.SEPARATOR), StringUtils.EMPTY);
JsonNode fieldValueNode = parentObjectNode.get(fieldName);
if(fieldValueNode != null) {
parentObjectNode.put(fieldName, "NewValue");
}
}