Sébastien Deleuze opened SPR-12225 and commented
Since Spring 4.1.x now supports Jackson based XML serialization, RestTemplate should create a MappingJackson2XmlHttpMessageConverter instead of a Jaxb2RootElementHttpMessageConverter when Jackson XML extension is detected on the classpath, like WebMvcConfigurationSupport do.
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