Registrer MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter in Spring 3.1.2 with JAXB annotations
I replicated your configuration and it works perfectly for me. The default message converters should not take effect, as you have explicitly specified the register-defaults=false attribute. This is how my @XmlTransient annotation looks:
@XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)public class EntityWithJAXB { @XmlTransient private EntityWithJAXB aChild;