Java Spring Jackons Date serialization

Question

I\'m using Spring MVC and Jackson for JSON de/serialization. But im facing a problem with serializing a date.

By default Jackson serialize a date as an epoch. But i

Answer 1

Much simpler way to do this now in Spring 3.1.

public class CustomObjectMapper extends ObjectMapper {

    public CustomObjectMapper() {
        configure(SerializationConfig.Feature.WRITE_DATES_AS_TIMESTAMPS, false);            
        setDateFormat(new ISO8601DateFormat());
    }
}

And then register this as a bean and customize the mvc:annotation-driven element.