diff --git a/hbase-rest/pom.xml b/hbase-rest/pom.xml
index c157a8d3817..3e55610db65 100644
--- a/hbase-rest/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-rest/pom.xml
@@ -309,6 +309,10 @@
       <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.containers</groupId>
       <artifactId>jersey-container-servlet-core</artifactId>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.media</groupId>
+      <artifactId>jersey-media-json-jackson1</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
   </dependencies>
   <profiles>
     <!-- Skip the tests in this module -->
diff --git a/hbase-rest/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/rest/RESTServer.java b/hbase-rest/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/rest/RESTServer.java
index b78af2f5490..eb3fc26e7d1 100644
--- a/hbase-rest/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/rest/RESTServer.java
+++ b/hbase-rest/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/rest/RESTServer.java
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ import org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.jmx.MBeanContainer;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.FilterHolder;
 
+import org.glassfish.jersey.jackson1.Jackson1Feature;
 import org.glassfish.jersey.server.ResourceConfig;
 import org.glassfish.jersey.servlet.ServletContainer;
 
@@ -235,7 +236,8 @@ public class RESTServer implements Constants {
     parseCommandLine(args, servlet);
 
     // set up the Jersey servlet container for Jetty
-    ResourceConfig application = new ResourceConfig();
+    ResourceConfig application = new ResourceConfig().
+        packages("org.apache.hadoop.hbase.rest").register(Jackson1Feature.class);
     ServletHolder sh = new ServletHolder(new ServletContainer(application));
 
     // Set the default max thread number to 100 to limit
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 9da4c6b2d7e..a7857157ead 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1878,6 +1878,11 @@
         <artifactId>jersey-container-servlet-core</artifactId>
         <version>${jersey.version}</version>
       </dependency>
+      <dependency>
+        <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.media</groupId>
+        <artifactId>jersey-media-json-jackson1</artifactId>
+        <version>${jackson.version}</version>
+      </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>javax.xml.bind</groupId>
         <artifactId>jaxb-api</artifactId>