I am using JBoss AS 7.2.0 with an upgraded RestEasy to version 3.0.1.Final.  I am deploying an EAR with a WAR and EJB module.  The the only thing the WAR has in it is REST service.  My EJB Pojos have circular references, so I would like to use the new Jackson 2 @JsonIdentityInfo.

The REST service is loaded via the web.xml attached.

<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"

      xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

      xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd"

      version="3.0">

    <display-name>Archetype Created Web Application</display-name>

          <context-param>

                    <param-name>resteasy.scan</param-name>

                    <param-value>true</param-value>

          </context-param>

    <listener>

        <listener-class>

            org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.ResteasyBootstrap

        </listener-class>

    </listener>

    <servlet>

        <servlet-name>Resteasy</servlet-name>

        <servlet-class>

            org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.HttpServletDispatcher

        </servlet-class>

    </servlet>

    <servlet-mapping>

        <servlet-name>Resteasy</servlet-name>

        <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>

    </servlet-mapping>     

</web-app>

I'm using all JBoss provided Jackson/JAX-RS Maven dependencies in my Maven POM files, scoped as provided.  In my EAR META-INF directory I have a jboss-deployment-structure.xml file that looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<jboss-deployment-structure>

    <deployment>

        <exclusions>

           <module name="org.jboss.resteasy.resteasy-jackson-provider"/>

        </exclusions>

        <dependencies>

            <module name="org.jboss.resteasy.resteasy-jackson2-provider" services="import"/>

        </dependencies>

    </deployment>

</jboss-deployment-structure>

My EJB POJO has the @JsonIdentityInfo annotation on it.  I make a call into my REST service and when the POJO is being serialized by RESTEasy (method is flagged as @Produces("application/json") I get a huge exception stack that basically ends in a stack overflow (meaning that Jackson is in the circular reference loop and not adhering to the Identity Info annotation).  The jar being used at this point is jackson-mapper-asl-1.9.12.jar and not the Jackson 2 jar.

Any thoughts on what I may be doing wrong or why this isn't working as expected?  I can post additional information if needed.

Thanks in advance,

Andrew