The JacksonJsonProvider is not working with CXF.

CXF v2.6.0 Jackson v2.1.2 (com.fasterxml.jackson) RESTClient (for testing)

I do have the provider configured like below in beans.xml. 

<bean id="jacksonMapper" class="com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper">
    <property name="dateFormat">
    <bean class="java.text.SimpleDateFormat">
    <constructor-arg type="java.lang.String" value="yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ">     </constructor-arg>
    </bean>
   </property>
</bean>

<bean id="jacksonProvider" class="com.fasterxml.jackson.jaxrs.json.JacksonJsonProvider">
    <property name="mapper" ref="jacksonMapper" />
</bean>

in jaxrs:server.....>

<jaxrs:providers>
<ref bean="jaxbProvider" />
<ref bean="jacksonProvider" />                        
</jaxrs:providers>

</jaxrs:server>

The application gets deployed without any issues, it gives good JSON while I give the request as "application/xml" and the response as "application/json".

When I try to give JSON in request by setting Content-Type=application/json I'm facing the 500 Internal Server Error

The request is getting logged in the log file thru CXF-logging.

The request is not at all landing in the service implementation class of my webservice.

The JSON in request body is : 

{"SearchOrdersRequest":{"LoginCredentials":{"AppId":"BookStore","Username":"myuser","Password":"abcd1234","SecurityToken":"Vcvx45YilzX1"},"SearchHeader":{"SearchCategory":"Rep","FilterLogic":"1 AND 2","SearchParams":{"Field":"Order Number (s)","Operator":"EQUALS","Values":"600045335"}}}}

Any immediate help is appreciated.

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