I'm writing a Java 8 Spring MVC application that communicates with a legacy Progress OpenEdge application using a REST service (I'm using Spring's RestTemplate for this). The data I need to read from and write to the Progress application contains some dates. In the Java application, I use a java.time.LocalDate datatype to represent these fields and I'm using Jackson to serialize / deserialize the data into / from Json.I'm writing a Java 8 Spring MVC application tha