MessageBodyWriter not found for media type=application/json when returning JSON in REST web service with Jersey

Question

I am trying to create a very simple REST service using Jersey. Here is the service code

@Path(\"/UserService\")
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Answer 1

You need a json serializer on your class path to make this work.

Just add jackson and jersey will use this in the writer. E.g. if you are using maven, add this to the pom.xml

  com.fasterxml.jackson.core
  jackson-core
  2.7.4