diff --git a/hbase-connectors-assembly/src/main/assembly/hbase-connectors-bin.xml b/hbase-connectors-assembly/src/main/assembly/hbase-connectors-bin.xml
index 2c238bfe..080608c2 100755
--- a/hbase-connectors-assembly/src/main/assembly/hbase-connectors-bin.xml
+++ b/hbase-connectors-assembly/src/main/assembly/hbase-connectors-bin.xml
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@
   <moduleSets>
     <moduleSet>
       <useAllReactorProjects>true</useAllReactorProjects>
+      <excludes>
+        <exclude>org.apache.hbase.connectors.spark:hbase-spark-it</exclude>
+      </excludes>
       <binaries>
         <unpack>false</unpack>
         <outputDirectory>lib</outputDirectory>
diff --git a/kafka/hbase-kafka-proxy/pom.xml b/kafka/hbase-kafka-proxy/pom.xml
index 3c5a2429..c84c2208 100755
--- a/kafka/hbase-kafka-proxy/pom.xml
+++ b/kafka/hbase-kafka-proxy/pom.xml
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>junit</groupId>
       <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
+      <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.hbase.thirdparty</groupId>
@@ -120,14 +121,6 @@
           <groupId>junit</groupId>
           <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
         </exclusion>
-       <exclusion>
-         <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
-         <artifactId>jackson-core-asl</artifactId>
-       </exclusion>
-       <exclusion>
-         <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
-         <artifactId>jackson-mapper-asl</artifactId>
-       </exclusion>
       </exclusions>
     </dependency>
     <!--See note on curator.version above for why we include
diff --git a/spark/hbase-spark-it/pom.xml b/spark/hbase-spark-it/pom.xml
index 36cb2e04..9f5782d0 100644
--- a/spark/hbase-spark-it/pom.xml
+++ b/spark/hbase-spark-it/pom.xml
@@ -279,10 +279,6 @@
           <groupId>com.google.code.findbugs</groupId>
           <artifactId>jsr305</artifactId>
         </exclusion>
-        <exclusion>
-          <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
-          <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
-        </exclusion>
       </exclusions>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
@@ -317,6 +313,13 @@
       <classifier>tests</classifier>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.module</groupId>
+      <artifactId>jackson-module-scala_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
+      <version>${jackson.version}</version>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+
     <dependency>
       <groupId>junit</groupId>
       <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
diff --git a/spark/hbase-spark/pom.xml b/spark/hbase-spark/pom.xml
index 705da4b9..73360aaf 100644
--- a/spark/hbase-spark/pom.xml
+++ b/spark/hbase-spark/pom.xml
@@ -86,10 +86,6 @@
           <groupId>xerces</groupId>
           <artifactId>xercesImpl</artifactId>
         </exclusion>
-        <exclusion>
-          <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
-          <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
-        </exclusion>
       </exclusions>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
@@ -97,12 +93,6 @@
       <artifactId>spark-sql_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
       <version>${spark.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
-      <exclusions>
-        <exclusion>
-          <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
-          <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
-        </exclusion>
-      </exclusions>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
@@ -135,21 +125,6 @@
        </exclusion>
       </exclusions>
     </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.module</groupId>
-      <artifactId>jackson-module-scala_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
-      <version>${jackson.version}</version>
-      <exclusions>
-        <exclusion>
-          <groupId>org.scala-lang</groupId>
-          <artifactId>scala-library</artifactId>
-        </exclusion>
-        <exclusion>
-          <groupId>org.scala-lang</groupId>
-          <artifactId>scala-reflect</artifactId>
-        </exclusion>
-      </exclusions>
-    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
       <artifactId>hbase-client</artifactId>
@@ -441,24 +416,6 @@
       <artifactId>spark-catalyst_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
       <version>${spark.version}</version>
     </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.json4s</groupId>
-      <artifactId>json4s-core_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
-      <version>${json4s.version}</version>
-      <scope>provided</scope>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.json4s</groupId>
-      <artifactId>json4s-ast_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
-      <version>${json4s.version}</version>
-      <scope>provided</scope>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.json4s</groupId>
-      <artifactId>json4s-jackson_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
-      <version>${json4s.version}</version>
-      <scope>provided</scope>
-     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
   <build>
     <plugins>
diff --git a/spark/hbase-spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/spark/datasources/HBaseTableCatalog.scala b/spark/hbase-spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/spark/datasources/HBaseTableCatalog.scala
index d2a8a3e8..61e77882 100644
--- a/spark/hbase-spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/spark/datasources/HBaseTableCatalog.scala
+++ b/spark/hbase-spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/spark/datasources/HBaseTableCatalog.scala
@@ -22,9 +22,9 @@ import org.apache.yetus.audience.InterfaceAudience
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.spark.{Logging, SchemaConverters}
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.Bytes
 import org.apache.spark.sql.types._
-import org.json4s.jackson.JsonMethods._
 
 import scala.collection.mutable
+import scala.util.parsing.json.JSON
 
 // The definition of each column cell, which may be composite type
 // TODO: add avro support
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ object HBaseTableCatalog {
     val parameters = convert(params)
     //  println(jString)
     val jString = parameters(tableCatalog)
-    val map = parse(jString).values.asInstanceOf[Map[String, _]]
+    val map = JSON.parseFull(jString).get.asInstanceOf[Map[String, _]]
     val tableMeta = map.get(table).get.asInstanceOf[Map[String, _]]
     val nSpace = tableMeta.get(nameSpace).getOrElse("default").asInstanceOf[String]
     val tName = tableMeta.get(tableName).get.asInstanceOf[String]
diff --git a/spark/pom.xml b/spark/pom.xml
index 58a2ac71..7aff2a28 100644
--- a/spark/pom.xml
+++ b/spark/pom.xml
@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@
          Please take caution when this version is modified -->
     <scala.version>2.11.12</scala.version>
     <scala.binary.version>2.11</scala.binary.version>
-    <json4s.version>3.2.11</json4s.version>
   </properties>
   <dependencyManagement>
     <dependencies>