spring mvc not returning json content - error 406

Question

I am using Spring MVC with JSON as specified in Ajax Simplification Spring 3.0 article.

After so many attempts and variations of my code depending on advice found on

Answer 1

I had this problem too, you have to add in your configuration xml

and

        
            com.fasterxml.jackson.core
            jackson-databind
            ${jackson.databind-version}
        

in your pom.xml