diff --git a/multiapps-common/pom.xml b/multiapps-common/pom.xml
index 5b68f8b4..ad90e7e4 100644
--- a/multiapps-common/pom.xml
+++ b/multiapps-common/pom.xml
@@ -32,9 +32,5 @@
             <groupId>tools.jackson.core</groupId>
             <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype</groupId>
-            <artifactId>jackson-datatype-jsr310</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/multiapps-common/src/main/java/module-info.java b/multiapps-common/src/main/java/module-info.java
index 312d0f6f..3a2b1eff 100644
--- a/multiapps-common/src/main/java/module-info.java
+++ b/multiapps-common/src/main/java/module-info.java
@@ -5,12 +5,11 @@
     exports org.cloudfoundry.multiapps.common.util;
     exports org.cloudfoundry.multiapps.common.util.yaml;
 
-    requires transitive com.fasterxml.jackson.core;
-    requires transitive com.fasterxml.jackson.databind;
     requires transitive org.yaml.snakeyaml;
+    requires transitive tools.jackson.core;
+    requires transitive tools.jackson.databind;
 
     requires com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation;
-    requires com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype.jsr310;
     requires org.apache.commons.io;
     requires org.apache.commons.lang3;
 
diff --git a/multiapps-common/src/main/java/org/cloudfoundry/multiapps/common/util/JsonUtil.java b/multiapps-common/src/main/java/org/cloudfoundry/multiapps/common/util/JsonUtil.java
index 618feb8c..84c809e0 100644
--- a/multiapps-common/src/main/java/org/cloudfoundry/multiapps/common/util/JsonUtil.java
+++ b/multiapps-common/src/main/java/org/cloudfoundry/multiapps/common/util/JsonUtil.java
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 package org.cloudfoundry.multiapps.common.util;
 
-import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.text.MessageFormat;
@@ -16,13 +15,15 @@
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonAutoDetect.Visibility;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonInclude.Include;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.PropertyAccessor;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.type.TypeReference;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationFeature;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JavaType;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectWriter;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype.jsr310.JavaTimeModule;
+import tools.jackson.core.JacksonException;
+import tools.jackson.core.type.TypeReference;
+import tools.jackson.databind.DeserializationFeature;
+import tools.jackson.databind.JavaType;
+import tools.jackson.databind.MapperFeature;
+import tools.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+import tools.jackson.databind.ObjectWriter;
+import tools.jackson.databind.cfg.EnumFeature;
+import tools.jackson.databind.json.JsonMapper;
 
 public class JsonUtil {
 
@@ -34,19 +35,48 @@ private JsonUtil() {
     }
 
     private static ObjectMapper createObjectMapper() {
-        return new ObjectMapper().setVisibility(PropertyAccessor.ALL, Visibility.NONE)
-                                 .setVisibility(PropertyAccessor.FIELD, Visibility.ANY)
-                                 .setSerializationInclusion(Include.NON_NULL)
-                                 .disable(DeserializationFeature.FAIL_ON_UNKNOWN_PROPERTIES)
-                                 .registerModule(new JavaTimeModule());
+        return JsonMapper.builder()
+                         .changeDefaultVisibility(vc -> vc.withVisibility(PropertyAccessor.ALL, Visibility.NONE)
+                                                          .withVisibility(PropertyAccessor.FIELD, Visibility.ANY))
+                         .changeDefaultPropertyInclusion(incl -> incl.withValueInclusion(Include.NON_NULL)
+                                                                     .withContentInclusion(Include.NON_NULL))
+                         .disable(DeserializationFeature.FAIL_ON_UNKNOWN_PROPERTIES)
+                         // Preserve Jackson 2 behavior: these defaults flipped in Jackson 3 and would change the
+                         // byte output / read leniency of already-persisted DB-column and Flowable-variable JSON.
+                         .disable(MapperFeature.SORT_PROPERTIES_ALPHABETICALLY)
+                         .enable(MapperFeature.ALLOW_FINAL_FIELDS_AS_MUTATORS)
+                         .enable(MapperFeature.ACCEPT_CASE_INSENSITIVE_ENUMS)
+                         .enable(MapperFeature.EXTERNAL_TYPE_ID_ALWAYS_VISIBLE)
+                         // Jackson 3 defaults to (de)serializing enums via toString(); Jackson 2 used name(). Several
+                         // domain enums override toString() to lowercase, so keep name() to stay wire/persistence
+                         // compatible with data written by the Jackson 2 version of the service.
+                         .disable(EnumFeature.WRITE_ENUMS_USING_TO_STRING)
+                         .disable(EnumFeature.READ_ENUMS_USING_TO_STRING)
+                         .disable(DeserializationFeature.FAIL_ON_TRAILING_TOKENS)
+                         .disable(DeserializationFeature.FAIL_ON_NULL_FOR_PRIMITIVES)
+                         .build();
     }
 
     private static ObjectMapper createObjectMapperWithNulls() {
         // Visibilities are required to parse properly "immutables" objects
-        return new ObjectMapper().setVisibility(PropertyAccessor.ALL, Visibility.NONE)
-                                 .setVisibility(PropertyAccessor.FIELD, Visibility.ANY)
-                                 .disable(DeserializationFeature.FAIL_ON_UNKNOWN_PROPERTIES)
-                                 .registerModule(new JavaTimeModule());
+        return JsonMapper.builder()
+                         .changeDefaultVisibility(vc -> vc.withVisibility(PropertyAccessor.ALL, Visibility.NONE)
+                                                          .withVisibility(PropertyAccessor.FIELD, Visibility.ANY))
+                         .disable(DeserializationFeature.FAIL_ON_UNKNOWN_PROPERTIES)
+                         // Preserve Jackson 2 behavior: these defaults flipped in Jackson 3 and would change the
+                         // byte output / read leniency of already-persisted DB-column and Flowable-variable JSON.
+                         .disable(MapperFeature.SORT_PROPERTIES_ALPHABETICALLY)
+                         .enable(MapperFeature.ALLOW_FINAL_FIELDS_AS_MUTATORS)
+                         .enable(MapperFeature.ACCEPT_CASE_INSENSITIVE_ENUMS)
+                         .enable(MapperFeature.EXTERNAL_TYPE_ID_ALWAYS_VISIBLE)
+                         // Jackson 3 defaults to (de)serializing enums via toString(); Jackson 2 used name(). Several
+                         // domain enums override toString() to lowercase, so keep name() to stay wire/persistence
+                         // compatible with data written by the Jackson 2 version of the service.
+                         .disable(EnumFeature.WRITE_ENUMS_USING_TO_STRING)
+                         .disable(EnumFeature.READ_ENUMS_USING_TO_STRING)
+                         .disable(DeserializationFeature.FAIL_ON_TRAILING_TOKENS)
+                         .disable(DeserializationFeature.FAIL_ON_NULL_FOR_PRIMITIVES)
+                         .build();
     }
 
     public static Map<String, Object> convertJsonToMap(InputStream json) {
@@ -128,7 +158,7 @@ private static <T> T fromJson(InputStream json, JsonSerializationStrategy jsonSe
         }
         try {
             return getObjectMapper(jsonSerializationStrategy).readValue(json, typeReference);
-        } catch (IOException e) {
+        } catch (JacksonException e) {
             throw new ParsingException(e, errorMessage, e.getMessage(), json);
         }
     }
@@ -140,7 +170,7 @@ private static <T> T fromJson(String json, JsonSerializationStrategy jsonSeriali
         }
         try {
             return getObjectMapper(jsonSerializationStrategy).readValue(json, typeReference);
-        } catch (IOException e) {
+        } catch (JacksonException e) {
             throw new ParsingException(e, errorMessage, e.getMessage(), json.substring(0, Math.min(json.length(), MAX_LENGTH)));
         }
     }
@@ -169,7 +199,7 @@ public static String toJson(Object object, boolean indentedOutput) {
     public static String toJson(Object object, JsonSerializationStrategy jsonSerializationStrategy, boolean indentedOutput) {
         try {
             return getObjectWriter(jsonSerializationStrategy, indentedOutput).writeValueAsString(object);
-        } catch (JsonProcessingException e) {
+        } catch (JacksonException e) {
             throw new IllegalArgumentException(e.getMessage(), e);
         }
     }
@@ -215,7 +245,7 @@ public static <T> T fromJson(String json, JsonSerializationStrategy jsonSerializ
     private static <T> T fromJson(ObjectMapper objectMapper, String json, JavaType javaType) {
         try {
             return objectMapper.readValue(json, javaType);
-        } catch (IOException e) {
+        } catch (JacksonException e) {
             throw new ParsingException(e,
                                        Messages.CANNOT_PARSE_JSON_STRING_TO_TYPE,
                                        json.substring(0, Math.min(json.length(), MAX_LENGTH)),
diff --git a/multiapps-common/src/test/java/org/cloudfoundry/multiapps/common/util/JsonUtilTest.java b/multiapps-common/src/test/java/org/cloudfoundry/multiapps/common/util/JsonUtilTest.java
index 5acbe497..87f4ef02 100644
--- a/multiapps-common/src/test/java/org/cloudfoundry/multiapps/common/util/JsonUtilTest.java
+++ b/multiapps-common/src/test/java/org/cloudfoundry/multiapps/common/util/JsonUtilTest.java
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 import org.cloudfoundry.multiapps.common.ParsingException;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.type.TypeReference;
+import tools.jackson.core.type.TypeReference;
 
 class JsonUtilTest {
 
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 16be9bd5..ed898ee2 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@
         <semver4j.version>6.0.0</semver4j.version>
         <immutables.version>2.12.1</immutables.version>
         <jackson.version>3.2.3</jackson.version>
-        <jackson.datatype.jsr310.version>2.21.2</jackson.datatype.jsr310.version>
         <jakarta.xml.bind-api.version>4.0.5</jakarta.xml.bind-api.version>
         <apache.compress.version>1.28.0</apache.compress.version>
     </properties>
@@ -243,12 +242,6 @@
                 <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
                 <version>${jackson.version}</version>
             </dependency>
-            <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype/jackson-datatype-jsr310 -->
-            <dependency>
-                <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype</groupId>
-                <artifactId>jackson-datatype-jsr310</artifactId>
-                <version>${jackson.datatype.jsr310.version}</version>
-            </dependency>
             <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.commons/commons-lang3 -->
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>