To serialize deserialize object I am useing Jackson as flow
@JsonSerialize(using = LocalDateSerializer.class) @JsonDeserialize(using = LocalDateDeserializer.
You can use configure your serializers (providing fully qualified class name) in spring Jackson2ObjectMapperFactoryBean then bind it with MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter. Here is an example XML configuration snippet:
Jackson2ObjectMapperFactoryBean
MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter
XML
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