Spring MVC + JSON = 406 Not Acceptable

If you’re using Maven and the latest Jackson code then you can remove all the Jackson-specific configuration from your spring configuration XML files (you’ll still need an annotation-driven tag <mvc:annotation-driven/>) and simply add some Jackson dependencies to your pom.xml file. See below for an example of the dependencies. This worked for me and I’m using:

  • Apache Maven 3.0.4 (r1232337; 2012-01-17 01:44:56-0700)
  • org.springframework version 3.1.2.RELEASE
  • spring-security version 3.1.0.RELEASE.

    ...<dependencies>
    ...
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
            <artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>
            <version>2.2.3</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
            <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
            <version>2.2.3</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
            <artifactId>jackson-annotations</artifactId>
            <version>2.2.3</version>
        </dependency>
        ...
    </dependencies>...
    

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