AbstractJackson2HttpMessageConverter now implements its own TypeVariable resolution algorithm since in Jackson 2.7 it is now deprecated and has not the same behavior . See https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-databind/issues/1087 for more details. The dependency on jackson-datatype-jdk7 has been removed since it is now provided by default in the jackson-databind module. Issues: SPR-13483, SPR-13728