Spring's Json not being resolved with appropriate response

Question

I\'ve tried to have a controller in Spring return a JSON response to no avail using the Jackson classes as recommended with 3.0. I\'ve got the jackson jar files(jackson-core

Answer 1

This question pops up everywhere on the net and I got bitten by it a couple of times. Spring 3.0.6 (and 5 possibly) has some issues in rendering json. Once I changed to 3.1.0.RELEASE version eveyrything worked AS IS. Without any config changes. Things to note is, the return method must have @ResponseBody (as in the example before) and must be in servlet-context.xml or your spring context configuration file.