The issue with Dates with TimeZone in JAX-RS and Jackson

JacksonConfigurator.java

package pkg;

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.TimeZone;

import javax.ws.rs.Produces;
import javax.ws.rs.ext.ContextResolver;
import javax.ws.rs.ext.Provider;

import org.codehaus.jackson.map.DeserializationConfig;
import org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper;
import org.codehaus.jackson.map.SerializationConfig;

@Provider
@Produces("application/json")
public class JacksonConfigurator implements ContextResolver<ObjectMapper> {

	public final static SimpleDateFormat DATE_FORMAT = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");

	private ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();

	public JacksonConfigurator() {
		DATE_FORMAT.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getDefault());

		SerializationConfig serializationConfig = mapper.getSerializationConfig();
		mapper.setSerializationConfig(serializationConfig.withDateFormat(DATE_FORMAT));
		DeserializationConfig deserializationConfig = mapper.getDeserializationConfig();
		mapper.setDeserializationConfig(deserializationConfig.withDateFormat(DATE_FORMAT));
		mapper.configure(SerializationConfig.Feature.WRITE_DATES_AS_TIMESTAMPS, false);
	}

	@Override
	public ObjectMapper getContext(Class<?> arg0) {
		return mapper;
	}

}