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Jackson 2.x: JSON Serialization Difference for Map.Entry between 2.4.x vs 2.5.x

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It appears Jackson 2.4.5 and 2.5.1 behave a little differently when handling Map.Entry.

Let’s assume we have the following bean:-

public class MyBean {
    private Map.Entry<String, String> entry;

    public Map.Entry<String, String> getEntry() {
        return entry;
    }

    public void setEntry(Map.Entry<String, String> entry) {
        this.entry = entry;
    }
}

We have a simple Spring MVC rest controller that creates this bean and returns the JSON data back to the client:-

@RequestMapping(value = "/map", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public ResponseEntity map() {
    final MyBean myBean = new MyBean();
    myBean.setEntry(new AbstractMap.SimpleImmutableEntry<String, String>("a", "1"));

    return new ResponseEntity<MyBean>(myBean, HttpStatus.OK);
}

Jackson 2.4.5 generates the following JSON:-

{
   "entry":
   {
       "key": "a",
       "value": "1"
   }
}

Jackson 2.5.1 generates the following JSON:-

{
   "entry":
   {
       "a": "1"
   }
}

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