have following details in my pom.xml
org.codehaus.jackson jackson-cor
Thanks it solved my issue. I finally ended up with a pom.xml like this:
org.codehaus.jackson jackson-mapper-asl 1.9.13 com.fasterxml.jackson.core jackson-core 2.4.1 com.fasterxml.jackson.core jackson-databind 2.4.1.1