diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 577daad6e27a819f74360e688ec64b3289492f2e..f9381552152b89657eed2f04c35e19cceecad9e2 100755
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -37,12 +37,24 @@
         <artifactId>graal-sdk</artifactId>
         <version>1.0.0-rc7</version>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+        <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
+        <artifactId>jackson-annotations</artifactId>
+        <version>2.9.8</version>
+            <type>jar</type>
+    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.bedatadriven</groupId>
       <artifactId>jackson-datatype-jts</artifactId>
       <version>2.4</version>
       <type>jar</type>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jackson-datatype-jsr310</artifactId>
+            <version>2.9.8</version>
+            <type>jar</type>
+        </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>no.nibio.vips.common</groupId>
       <artifactId>VIPSCommon</artifactId>
diff --git a/src/main/java/no/nibio/vips/core/service/ModelResourceImpl.java b/src/main/java/no/nibio/vips/core/service/ModelResourceImpl.java
index cab6b58ab3a64e8c794859a7ac81f8ed31064887..8434ebd4a682ed864bcf70f074592aefe9660d87 100755
--- a/src/main/java/no/nibio/vips/core/service/ModelResourceImpl.java
+++ b/src/main/java/no/nibio/vips/core/service/ModelResourceImpl.java
@@ -19,16 +19,19 @@
 
 package no.nibio.vips.core.service;
 
-import java.net.URL;
-import java.net.URLClassLoader;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.logging.Level;
 import java.util.logging.Logger;
 import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
+import javax.ws.rs.Consumes;
 import javax.ws.rs.GET;
+import javax.ws.rs.POST;
 import javax.ws.rs.Path;
 import javax.ws.rs.PathParam;
 import javax.ws.rs.Produces;
@@ -37,6 +40,8 @@ import javax.ws.rs.core.Context;
 import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;
 import no.nibio.vips.entity.ModelConfiguration;
 import no.nibio.vips.entity.Result;
+import no.nibio.vips.ipmdecisions.DataTransformer;
+import no.nibio.vips.ipmdecisions.IPMDecisionsModelConfiguration;
 import no.nibio.vips.model.ConfigValidationException;
 import no.nibio.vips.model.Model;
 import no.nibio.vips.model.ModelExcecutionException;
@@ -281,6 +286,9 @@ public class ModelResourceImpl implements ModelResource{
     @Override
     public Response runModel(@PathParam("modelId") String modelId, ModelConfiguration config)
     {
+        System.out.println("Observations are of class " + 
+                ((ArrayList)config.getConfigParameter("observations")).get(0).getClass().getName()
+        );
         try
         {
             Model calledModel = ModelFactory.getInstance().getModelInstance(modelId);
@@ -305,6 +313,20 @@ public class ModelResourceImpl implements ModelResource{
             }
         }
     }
+    
+    /**
+     * For input data coming from the IPM Decisions platform
+     * @param modelId
+     * @param config
+     * @return 
+     */
+    @Override
+    public Response runModelForIPMDecisions(@PathParam("modelId") String modelId, IPMDecisionsModelConfiguration config)
+    {
+        DataTransformer dt = new DataTransformer();
+        config.setConfigParameter("observations", dt.getVIPSWeatherData(config.getWeatherData()));
+        return this.runModel(modelId, config);
+    }
 
     @Override
     public Response printModelName(String modelId) {
diff --git a/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/jboss-deployment-structure.xml b/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/jboss-deployment-structure.xml
index 1a1e0575a8cfbab863c92cfcc4c4779f85a924e4..0afc3426ce1471cf541ae6ce865dc2b4c6711a36 100755
--- a/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/jboss-deployment-structure.xml
+++ b/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/jboss-deployment-structure.xml
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ along with VIPSCore.  If not, see <http://www.nibio.no/licenses/>.
       <module name="no.nibio.vips.VIPSCommon" export="true"/>  
       <module name="com.fasterxml.jackson.core.jackson-core" />
       <module name="com.fasterxml.jackson.core.jackson-databind" />
+      <module name="com.fasterxml.jackson.core.jackson-annotations" />
     </dependencies>  
     <exclusions>
           <module name="org.jboss.resteasy.resteasy-json-binding-provider"/>