Just to close the loop, I checked my maven pom.xml, and it was
jersey-json that was bringing in the dependency on jackson-jaxrs version
1.5.5 through maven. I have since modified my pom.xml to exclude this
JAR for the jersey-json (I actually had to do something similiar for
stax-api (had two competing versions)).
For reference here is what this looks like:
<dependency>
<groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
<artifactId>jersey-json</artifactId>
<version>1.4</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
<!-- add exclusion rule for jackson-jaxrs default providers. -->
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-jaxrs</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
Cheers everyone!
-Jason