diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 23176e3effbf3094ff070c26224e3b2d14427283..4bc1e934d1a2494c4b7a08a7b94ce0c6f5834c65 100755
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 target/
 classes/
+*~
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index c9eebd2d5d77f0e3435b14c2e84577c6914393f8..266b6e2a41da7b4a744530aaa1de2fa55adb7df6 100755
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -27,15 +27,21 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
       <artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>
-      <version>2.9.8</version>
+      <version>2.11.3</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
       <artifactId>jackson-annotations</artifactId>
-      <version>2.9.8</version>
+      <version>2.11.3</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jackson-datatype-jsr310</artifactId>
+            <version>2.11.3</version>
+            <type>jar</type>
+        </dependency>
      <dependency>
       <groupId>no.nibio.vips.common</groupId>
       <artifactId>VIPSCommon</artifactId>
diff --git a/src/main/java/no/nibio/vips/coremanager/config/JacksonConfig.java b/src/main/java/no/nibio/vips/coremanager/config/JacksonConfig.java
index b2e3f154325d864c93fc5bfe727af283600f7885..d551fe8842ad0b0b8a6a619ca414b15dbd94f373 100644
--- a/src/main/java/no/nibio/vips/coremanager/config/JacksonConfig.java
+++ b/src/main/java/no/nibio/vips/coremanager/config/JacksonConfig.java
@@ -20,13 +20,18 @@
 package no.nibio.vips.coremanager.config;
 
 import com.bedatadriven.jackson.datatype.jts.JtsModule;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.Module.SetupContext;
 import javax.ws.rs.Produces;
 import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
 import javax.ws.rs.ext.ContextResolver;
 import javax.ws.rs.ext.Provider;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.SerializationFeature;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.module.SimpleModule;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype.jsr310.JavaTimeModule;
 import javax.ws.rs.Consumes;
+import net.ipmdecisions.weather.entity.LocationWeatherData;
+import no.nibio.vips.ipmdecisions.LocationWeatherDataDeserializer;
 
 /**
  * This config ensures that Jackson serializes dates as [ISO-8601 ]-compliant notation,
@@ -45,6 +50,10 @@ public class JacksonConfig  implements ContextResolver<ObjectMapper>{
         objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
         objectMapper.configure(SerializationFeature.WRITE_DATES_AS_TIMESTAMPS, false);
         objectMapper.registerModule(new JtsModule());
+        objectMapper.registerModule(new JavaTimeModule());
+        SimpleModule module = new SimpleModule();
+        module.addDeserializer(LocationWeatherData.class, new LocationWeatherDataDeserializer());
+        objectMapper.registerModule(module);
     }
 
     @Override
diff --git a/src/main/java/no/nibio/vips/coremanager/service/ManagerResourceImpl.java b/src/main/java/no/nibio/vips/coremanager/service/ManagerResourceImpl.java
index a78929f433a4fc9c3dfc17747fab9f84ea40f55f..14d96bf2100556761bde86cc188f85664de15282 100755
--- a/src/main/java/no/nibio/vips/coremanager/service/ManagerResourceImpl.java
+++ b/src/main/java/no/nibio/vips/coremanager/service/ManagerResourceImpl.java
@@ -44,12 +44,14 @@ import javax.ws.rs.client.WebTarget;
 import javax.ws.rs.core.Context;
 import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;
 import no.nibio.vips.core.service.ModelResource;
+import no.nibio.vips.coremanager.config.JacksonConfig;
 import no.nibio.vips.coremanager.session.ControllerGetter;
 import no.nibio.vips.coremanager.entity.ModelUsageLog;
 import no.nibio.vips.coremanager.entity.VIPSCoreCredentials;
 import no.nibio.vips.coremanager.entity.VipsCoreUser;
 import no.nibio.vips.entity.ModelConfiguration;
 import no.nibio.vips.entity.ModelRunRequest;
+import no.nibio.vips.ipmdecisions.IPMDecisionsModelConfiguration;
 import no.nibio.vips.model.Model;
 import no.nibio.vips.util.ServletUtil;
 import org.jboss.resteasy.annotations.GZIP;
@@ -400,6 +402,18 @@ public class ManagerResourceImpl implements ManagerResource{
         
     }
     
+    /**
+     * TODO Add some kind of authentication and logging for IPM Decisions
+     * @param modelId
+     * @param config
+     * @return 
+     */
+    @Override
+    public Response runModelForIPMDecisions(String modelId, IPMDecisionsModelConfiguration config) {
+        return this.getModelResource().runModelForIPMDecisions(modelId, config);
+    }
+    
+    
     /**
      * Instantiates and runs the requested model asynchronously (Implement if needed)
      * @param modelId
@@ -418,7 +432,11 @@ public class ManagerResourceImpl implements ManagerResource{
     
     private ModelResource getModelResource()
     {
+
         Client client = ClientBuilder.newClient();
+        // This ensures that the general ObjectMapper config is applied to the 
+        // client.
+        client.register(JacksonConfig.class);
         WebTarget target = client.target(VIPSCORE_URL);
         ResteasyWebTarget rTarget = (ResteasyWebTarget) target;
         ModelResource resource = rTarget.proxy(ModelResource.class);
@@ -488,5 +506,6 @@ public class ManagerResourceImpl implements ManagerResource{
         return Response.ok(this.getStaticFileAsInputStream(servletContext, "staticcss/" + fileName)).build();
 
     }
+
     
 }