diff --git a/headless-services/commons/commons-language-server/src/main/java/org/springframework/ide/vscode/commons/languageserver/util/JSON.java b/headless-services/commons/commons-language-server/src/main/java/org/springframework/ide/vscode/commons/languageserver/util/JSON.java
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-/*******************************************************************************
- * Copyright (c) 2016-2017 Pivotal, Inc.
- * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
- * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
- * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
- * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
- *
- * Contributors:
- *     Pivotal, Inc. - initial API and implementation
- *******************************************************************************/
-
-package org.springframework.ide.vscode.commons.languageserver.util;
-
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.nio.file.Path;
-import java.nio.file.Paths;
-
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonGenerator;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParser;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationContext;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonDeserializer;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonSerializer;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.SerializerProvider;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.module.SimpleModule;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype.jdk8.Jdk8Module;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype.jsr310.JSR310Module;
-
-public class JSON {
-	
-    public static final ObjectMapper JSON = new ObjectMapper().registerModule(new Jdk8Module())
-            .registerModule(new JSR310Module())
-            .registerModule(pathAsJson())
-            .configure(JsonGenerator.Feature.AUTO_CLOSE_TARGET, false);
-
-    private static SimpleModule pathAsJson() {
-        SimpleModule m = new SimpleModule();
-
-        m.addSerializer(Path.class, new JsonSerializer<Path>() {
-            @Override
-            public void serialize(Path path,
-                                  JsonGenerator gen,
-                                  SerializerProvider serializerProvider) throws IOException, JsonProcessingException {
-                gen.writeString(path.toString());
-            }
-        });
-
-        m.addDeserializer(Path.class, new JsonDeserializer<Path>() {
-            @Override
-            public Path deserialize(JsonParser parse,
-                                    DeserializationContext deserializationContext) throws IOException, JsonProcessingException {
-                return Paths.get(parse.getText());
-            }
-        });
-
-        return m;
-    }
-
-
-    
-}