diff --git a/plugin-common/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/plugin/manager/CustomizedMapDeserializer.java b/plugin-common/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/plugin/manager/CustomizedMapDeserializer.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 268d70fa47..0000000000
--- a/plugin-common/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/plugin/manager/CustomizedMapDeserializer.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-package org.apache.ranger.plugin.manager;
-
-
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.util.HashMap;
-import java.util.Map;
-
-import org.codehaus.jackson.JsonParser;
-import org.codehaus.jackson.JsonProcessingException;
-import org.codehaus.jackson.JsonToken;
-import org.codehaus.jackson.map.DeserializationContext;
-import org.codehaus.jackson.map.JsonDeserializer;
-import org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper;
-import org.codehaus.jackson.type.TypeReference;
-
-
-/**
- * Created by gautam on 06/01/15.
- */
-public class CustomizedMapDeserializer extends JsonDeserializer<Map<Object, Object>> {
-
-        @Override
-        public Map<Object, Object> deserialize(JsonParser jp, DeserializationContext arg1) throws IOException,
-                JsonProcessingException {
-                ObjectMapper mapper = (ObjectMapper) jp.getCodec();
-                if (jp.getCurrentToken().equals(JsonToken.START_OBJECT)) {
-                        return mapper.readValue(jp, new TypeReference<Map<Object, Object>>() { });
-                } else {
-                        // consume this stream
-                        mapper.readTree(jp);
-                        return new HashMap<Object, Object>();
-                }
-        }
-}
diff --git a/plugin-common/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/plugin/model/RangerService.java b/plugin-common/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/plugin/model/RangerService.java
index 65de02a29c..d982d6c8ea 100644
--- a/plugin-common/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/plugin/model/RangerService.java
+++ b/plugin-common/src/main/java/org/apache/ranger/plugin/model/RangerService.java
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
  * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
  * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
  * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
- * 
+ *
  * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- * 
+ *
  * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
  * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
  * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@ public class RangerService extends RangerBaseModelObject implements java.io.Seri
 	private String              name        = null;
 	private String              description = null;
 	private Boolean             isEnabled   = null;
-	@JsonDeserialize(using = CustomizedMapDeserializer.class)
 	private Map<String, String> configs     = null;