SEVERE: A message body writer for Java class java.util.ArrayList and MIME media type application/json was not found

I am testing RESTful services and when I execute I am getting exceptions although I have the following jars in my class path(WEB-INF/lib), I am not using Maven and my JDK version is 1.5. Other questions regarding this issue didn't help to resolve the problem.

Code snippet

@GET
@Produces("application/json")    
//@Produces({MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON}) tried this, didn't work either
public List<Emp> getEmployees() {        
    List<Emp> empList = myDAO.getAllEmployees();
    log.info("size   " + empList.size());
    return empList;
}

@XmlRootElement
public class Emp {
......

web.xml

<servlet>
    <servlet-name>Jersey Web Application</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer</servlet-class>
    <init-param>
        <param-name>com.sun.jersey.config.property.packages</param-name>
        <param-value>test.employees</param-value>
    </init-param>
    <init-param>
        <param-name>com.sun.jersey.api.json.POJOMappingFeature</param-name>
        <param-value>true</param-value>
    </init-param>
</servlet>

 <servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>Jersey Web Application</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/rest/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

List of jars

jersey-server-1.2.jar
jersey-core-1.2.jar
jsr311-api-1.1.jar
asm-3.1.jar
jaxb-api-2.0.jar
jaxb-impl-2.0.jar
jackson-xc-1.2.0.jar
jackson-jaxrs-1.2.0.jar
jackson-mapper-asl-1.2.0.jar
jackson-core-asl-1.2.0.jar
jettison-1.2.jar
jersey-client-1.2.jar
jersey-servlet-1.10.jar
jersey-json-1.8.jar

Exception stack

 SEVERE: A message body writer for Java class java.util.ArrayList,
 and Java type java.util.List<test.Emp>, 
 and MIME media type application/json was not found
Nov 21, 2013 11:47:26 AM com.sun.jersey.spi.container.ContainerResponse traceException
SEVERE: Mapped exception to response: 500 (Internal Server Error)

javax.ws.rs.WebApplicationException
    at javax.ws.rs.WebApplicationException.<init>(WebApplicationException.java:97)
    at javax.ws.rs.WebApplicationException.<init>(WebApplicationException.java:55)
    at com.sun.jersey.spi.container.ContainerResponse.write(ContainerResponse.java:267)
    at com.sun.jersey.server.impl.application.WebApplicationImpl._handleRequest(WebApplicationImpl.java:1035)
    at com.sun.jersey.server.impl.application.WebApplicationImpl.handleRequest(WebApplicationImpl.java:947)
    at com.sun.jersey.server.impl.application.WebApplicationImpl.handleRequest(WebApplicationImpl.java:939)
    at com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.WebComponent.service(WebComponent.java:399)
    at com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer.service(ServletContainer.java:478)
    at com.sun.jersey.spi.container.servlet.ServletContainer.service(ServletContainer.java:663)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:856)
    at com.evermind.server.http.ServletRequestDispatcher.invoke(ServletRequestDispatcher.java:719)
    at com.evermind.server.http.ServletRequestDispatcher.forwardInternal(ServletRequestDispatcher.java:376)
    at com.evermind.server.http.HttpRequestHandler.doProcessRequest(HttpRequestHandler.java:870)
    at com.evermind.server.http.HttpRequestHandler.processRequest(HttpRequestHandler.java:451)
    at com.evermind.server.http.HttpRequestHandler.serveOneRequest(HttpRequestHandler.java:218)
    at com.evermind.server.http.HttpRequestHandler.run(HttpRequestHandler.java:119)
    at com.evermind.server.http.HttpRequestHandler.run(HttpRequestHandler.java:112)
    at oracle.oc4j.network.ServerSocketReadHandler$SafeRunnable.run(ServerSocketReadHandler.java:260)
    at oracle.oc4j.network.ServerSocketAcceptHandler.procClientSocket(ServerSocketAcceptHandler.java:230)
    at oracle.oc4j.network.ServerSocketAcceptHandler.access$800(ServerSocketAcceptHandler.java:33)
    at oracle.oc4j.network.ServerSocketAcceptHandler$AcceptHandlerHorse.run(ServerSocketAcceptHandler.java:831)
    at com.evermind.util.ReleasableResourcePooledExecutor$MyWorker.run(ReleasableResourcePooledExecutor.java:303)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)

How can I resolve this issue?

Make sure you don't have multiple Jersey versions in your project. From the list you provided there are modules from 3 different versions (1.2, 1.10, 1.8). For some modules Jersey does a check that the version of a module is the same as the version of the core. If it's not then providers of the module (such as MessageBodyReaders, MessageBodyWriters) are not registered in the runtime. This can be problem in your setup - json vs core (1.8 vs 1.2).