diff --git a/spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/http/converter/FormHttpMessageConverter.java b/spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/http/converter/FormHttpMessageConverter.java
index 0bbe671083f..8cc1b63f533 100644
--- a/spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/http/converter/FormHttpMessageConverter.java
+++ b/spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/http/converter/FormHttpMessageConverter.java
@@ -36,11 +36,15 @@ import org.springframework.http.HttpHeaders;
 import org.springframework.http.HttpInputMessage;
 import org.springframework.http.HttpOutputMessage;
 import org.springframework.http.MediaType;
+import org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter;
+import org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter;
 import org.springframework.util.Assert;
+import org.springframework.util.ClassUtils;
 import org.springframework.util.FileCopyUtils;
 import org.springframework.util.LinkedMultiValueMap;
 import org.springframework.util.MultiValueMap;
 import org.springframework.util.StringUtils;
+import org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate;
 
 /**
  * Implementation of {@link HttpMessageConverter} that can handle form data, including multipart form data (i.e. file
@@ -72,6 +76,14 @@ import org.springframework.util.StringUtils;
  */
 public class FormHttpMessageConverter implements HttpMessageConverter<MultiValueMap<String, ?>> {
 
+	private static final boolean jackson2Present =
+			ClassUtils.isPresent("com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper", RestTemplate.class.getClassLoader()) &&
+					ClassUtils.isPresent("com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonGenerator", RestTemplate.class.getClassLoader());
+
+	private static final boolean jacksonPresent =
+			ClassUtils.isPresent("org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper", RestTemplate.class.getClassLoader()) &&
+					ClassUtils.isPresent("org.codehaus.jackson.JsonGenerator", RestTemplate.class.getClassLoader());
+
 	private static final byte[] BOUNDARY_CHARS =
 			new byte[]{'-', '_', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', '0', 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g',
 					'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l', 'm', 'n', 'o', 'p', 'q', 'r', 's', 't', 'u', 'v', 'w', 'x', 'y', 'z', 'A',
@@ -96,6 +108,12 @@ public class FormHttpMessageConverter implements HttpMessageConverter<MultiValue
 		stringHttpMessageConverter.setWriteAcceptCharset(false);
 		this.partConverters.add(stringHttpMessageConverter);
 		this.partConverters.add(new ResourceHttpMessageConverter());
+		if (jackson2Present) {
+			this.partConverters.add(new MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter());
+		}
+		else if (jacksonPresent) {
+			this.partConverters.add(new MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter());
+		}
 	}
 
 
diff --git a/src/dist/changelog.txt b/src/dist/changelog.txt
index 294e3e99211..22bb4782167 100644
--- a/src/dist/changelog.txt
+++ b/src/dist/changelog.txt
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ Changes in version 3.2 RC1 (2012-11-04)
 * use concurrent cache to improve performance of GenericTypeResolver (SPR-8701)
 * cache and late resolve annotations on bean properties to improve performance (SPR-9166)
 * allow PropertyResolver implementations to ignore unresolvable ${placeholders} (SPR-9569)
-
+* FormHttpMessageConverter now adds Jackson JSON converters if available on the classpath (SPR-10055)
 
 Changes in version 3.2 M2 (2012-09-11)
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