Scala: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.sun.jersey.core.provider.jaxb.AbstractRootElementProvider - jersey-2.0

Question

I have the following piece of code to make a call to receive a token and i am getting the jersey error.Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.sun.jersey.core.provider.jaxb.AbstractRootElementProvider i am not able to figure out why. I have given the pom as well.. Can anyone suggest whats the issue.?
import javax.ws.rs.client.{ClientBuilder, Entity}
import javax.ws.rs.core.{MediaType, Response}
 
import com.google.gson.JsonParser
import com.rms.execution._
import com.rms.transform.constants.ApiConstants
import com.rms.transform.constants.ImportPayloadSettingParameters._
import com.rms.transform.task.api.TaskConstants
import com.rms.transform.task.api.TaskConstants._
import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration
import org.apache.hadoop.fs.{FileSystem, Path}
import org.json.{JSONException, JSONObject}
import org.junit.runner.RunWith
import org.scalatest.junit.JUnitRunner
import org.scalatest.{BeforeAndAfter, FunSuite}
import org.slf4j.{Logger, LoggerFactory}
 
import scala.collection.immutable.HashMap
import scala.collection.mutable.ListBuffer
import scala.util.control.Breaks._
test("Do a datastore commit ) {
val jobId: Integer = 1
 
val token: String = getToken
}
#throws[JSONException]
private def getToken : String = {
val body = HashMap("username" -> “a”,”tenant”->”b”,”password"->“c”)
var bearerToken : String = ""
val client = ClientBuilder.newClient
val response = client.target(“http://”).request(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON).post(Entity.json(body))
if (response != null){
val tokenResponse = response.readEntity(classOf[String])
val json :JSONObject = new JSONObject(tokenResponse);
val token :String = json.get("token").toString();
bearerToken = "Bearer " + token
}
 
bearerToken
}
POM is below..
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
<version>${commons-lang3.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.ws.rs</groupId>
<artifactId>javax.ws.rs-api</artifactId>
<version>${javax.ws.rs-api.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.rms</groupId>
<artifactId>import-hdfs</artifactId>
<version>${project.version}</version>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<artifactId>jersey-core</artifactId>
<groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
</exclusion>
<exclusion>
<artifactId>jersey-server</artifactId>
<groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
</exclusion>
<exclusion>
<artifactId>jersey-client</artifactId>
<groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>uk.co.datumedge</groupId>
<artifactId>hamcrest-json</artifactId>
<version>${hamcrest-json.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.rms</groupId>
<artifactId>execution-common</artifactId>
<version>${jobs.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.scalatest</groupId>
<artifactId>scalatest_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
<version>${scalatest.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.scala-lang</groupId>
<artifactId>scala-library</artifactId>
<version>${scala.version}</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>