ClassNotFoundException: org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter

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I am completely a beginner at Spring (you can see that in my code :) ). I just wanted to test the class RestTemplate but I got a ClassNotFoundException .
So the code is:
import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate;
public class RestClient {
    private RestTemplate restTemplate;
    public String getJiraIssueAsJson(){
        Object o = restTemplate.getForObject(..., Object.class);
        System.out.println("..."+o.getClass());
        return null;
    public void setRestTemplate(RestTemplate restTemplate) {
        this.restTemplate = restTemplate;
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        ApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("rest-client-context.xml");
        RestClient restClient = context.getBean("restClient", RestClient.class);
        restClient.getJiraIssueAsJson();
context.xml
<beans ...>
    <bean id="restTemplate" class="org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate">
        <property name="messageConverters">
                <bean class="org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverte‌‌r"/>
            </list>
        </property>
    </bean>
    <bean id="restClient" class="org.googlecode.happymarvin.jiraexplorer.RestClient">
        <property name="restTemplate" ref="restTemplate"/>
    </bean>
</beans>
pom.xml
<project ...>
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <parent>
        <groupId>com.googlecode.happymarvin</groupId>
        <artifactId>parent</artifactId>
        <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    </parent>
    <artifactId>jiraminer</artifactId>
    <name>Happy Marvin JIRA Miner</name>
    <packaging>jar</packaging>
    <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
    <properties>
        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
        <jackson-version>1.9.13</jackson-version>
    </properties>
</project>
parent pom.xml
<project ...>
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>com.googlecode.happymarvin</groupId>
    <artifactId>parent</artifactId>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <packaging>pom</packaging>
    <name>Happy Marvin parent project</name>
    <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
    <properties>
        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
        <org.springframework.version>4.0.0.RELEASE</org.springframework.version>
    </properties>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
            <version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
            <version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
</project>
Exception
Jan 07, 2014 10:18:24 AM org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext prepareRefresh
INFO: Refreshing org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext@730eb2f0: startup date [Tue Jan 07 10:18:24 GMT 2014]; root of context hierarchy
Jan 07, 2014 10:18:24 AM org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader loadBeanDefinitions
INFO: Loading XML bean definitions from class path resource [rest-client-context.xml]
Exception in thread "main" org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'restTemplate' defined in class path resource [rest-client-context.xml]: Cannot create inner bean 'org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverte‌‌r#77624896' of type [org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverte‌‌r] while setting bean property 'messageConverters' with key [0]; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.CannotLoadBeanClassException: Cannot find class [org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverte‌‌r] for bean with name 'org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverte‌‌r#77624896' defined in class path resource [rest-client-context.xml]; nested exception is java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverte‌‌r
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverte‌‌r
I have this exception when I try to run the main method from eclipse.

I can think of something like the spring jars cannot be seen but I don't know why...
Can you please help me?
                Hi SiN, thanks for help! The spring-web is in the maven dependencies. I thought the maven dependencies are on the classpath in eclipse. or am I mistaken?
– Viktor
                Jan 7 '14 at 11:48
                spring 4.0.0 ? I can see that class should in spring-web.jar as of 3.0.x may be its not there in 4.0 ?
– mzzzzb
                Jan 7 '14 at 11:48
                I found the class MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverte‌ in eclipse in the maven dependencies (spring-web-4.0.0.jar). However I tried the spring 3.0.5 too but the result was the same... :(
– Viktor
                Jan 7 '14 at 11:58
i tried to copy paste your spring beans to a project but something strange is wrong with
<bean class="org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverte‌‌r"/>
this line, specifically there seems to be some invisible characters before the last r in Converter try typing that classname again manually. 
if this is the case then its the craziest thing i have seen for sometime :D
Also MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter is deprecated in 4.0.0 there is something newer. And you will need to add dependencies for jackson as well to get things working. This should be helpful.
                that would explain the title of this post (the gap before the r) too. the .class file is in spring-web. It may be damaged in the local repo?
– wemu
                Jan 7 '14 at 13:37
                ya i thought it was a typo there. i think OP copied from some websource which had those characters there. i copied this into eclipse and i wouldnt notice anything different. i kept staring at the classname for like whole 5 mins :D
– mzzzzb
                Jan 7 '14 at 13:39
                Oh my God! ... I really don't know how I did this... :)    You are right, there was ... something before the letter 'r' but I don't know what. Anyway sorry about the confusion and thank you for the help! Now it is working.
– Viktor
                Jan 7 '14 at 13:53
                it can be a nightmare debugging things like this. i was like whats the different between MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverte‌‌r and MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter :D
– mzzzzb
                Jan 7 '14 at 13:56
The first major version of Jackson is no longer supported in Spring 4.  The class you want to use is now 
org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter.  Make sure that you have com.fasterxml.jackson.core/jackson-core/2.x.x on your classpath.
                Thanks, this solved my problem. Just for the information we need to add 3 jars in classpath becasue of its dependency on each other: 1. jackson-core-x.x.x.jar, 2. jackson-databind-x.x.x.jar, 3. jackson-annotations-x.x.x.jar
– Chintan Patel
                May 7 '15 at 7:19
        <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
        <artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>
        <version>2.6.3</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
        <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
        <version>2.6.3</version>
    </dependency>
Found it here!
                Anyone is pulling hairs because of this - key is that you should use jackson version 2.6.3+, especially when you are using Spring version 4.2.6+ .. I tried with many versions of jackson library and still had this issue, but as soon as I used version 2.6.3 this issue got resolved, so this means that earlier versions of jackson library references org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter but since in hire versions of Spring this is replaced by MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter, so there will be ClassNotFoundException:MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter
– hagrawal
                Jul 18 '16 at 14:09
                This is a possible option when spring autoconfigure was in the project as well. But looks like it is not related to the original question.
– amisiuryk
                Oct 8 '19 at 10:15
    @Bean
    public HttpMessageConverters customConverters() {
        HttpMessageConverter<?> jacksonMessageConverter = new MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter();
//        HttpMessageConverter<?> another = ...
        return new HttpMessageConverters(jacksonMessageConverter);
    <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
    <artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>
    <version>2.6.3</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
    <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
    <version>2.6.3</version>
</dependency>
it's worked for me 
                <dependencies>     <dependency>         <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>         <artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>     </dependency> </dependencies> also need
– zhenwodefengcai
                Jan 2 '17 at 13:50
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