Can spark-mllib upgrade to Jersey 2.x

I'm trying to build a web app that uses swagger and jersey. I have been using jersey 2.7, but spark-mllib-2.11 has a dependency on jersey 1.9. When I add spark-mllib-2.11 to my web app I start getting exceptions on tomcat startup.

java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.sun.jersey.core.provider.jaxb.AbstractJAXBProvider.setConfiguration(AbstractJAXBProvider.java:109)

I've tried playing with exclusions in my maven dependency, but that causes other issues. I'm happy to see a workaround, but otherwise moving from 1.9 (which seems a bit old) to 2.x might be a nice feature.