How do I use a custom Serializer with Jackson?

You can put @JsonSerialize(using = CustomDateSerializer.class) over any date field of object to be serialized.

public class CustomDateSerializer extends SerializerBase<Date> {

    public CustomDateSerializer() {
        super(Date.class, true);
    }

    @Override
    public void serialize(Date value, JsonGenerator jgen, SerializerProvider provider)
        throws IOException, JsonProcessingException {
        SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd yyyy HH:mm:ss 'GMT'ZZZ (z)");
        String format = formatter.format(value);
        jgen.writeString(format);
    }

}