JsonDateSerializer.java

package org.jboss.seam.rest.examples.tasks.json;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

import org.codehaus.jackson.JsonGenerator;
import org.codehaus.jackson.JsonProcessingException;
import org.codehaus.jackson.map.JsonSerializer;
import org.codehaus.jackson.map.SerializerProvider;

public class JsonDateSerializer extends JsonSerializer<Date> {

    private static final SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ");

    @Override
    public void serialize(Date value, JsonGenerator jgen, SerializerProvider provider) throws IOException,
            JsonProcessingException {
        jgen.writeString(format.format(value));
    }
}