Serialize Date in a JSON REST web service as ISO-8601 string

Question

I have a JAX-RS application using JBoss AS 7.1, and I POST/GET JSON and XML objects which include Dates (java.util.Date):

@XmlRootElement
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Answer 1

The default JBoss parser is Jettison, but I wasn't able to change the date format. So I switched to Jackson and added the following class to my project to configure it:

@Provider
@Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
public class JacksonConfig implements ContextResolver
{
    private final ObjectMapper objectMapper;

    public JacksonConfig()
    {
        objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
        objectMapper.configure(SerializationConfig.Feature.WRITE_DATES_AS_TIMESPAMPS, false);
    }

    @Override
    public ObjectMapper getContext(Class objectType)
    {
        return objectMapper;
    }
}