Currently, various specs define ways to convert objects from one to another (string, streams, etc). This should be consolidated to avoid duplication, e.g. if I want to convert for both JAX-RS and WebSocket support, I should be able to define one class to do it all for me.

See this mail for full details and conversation follow up: https://java.net/projects/javaee-spec/lists/users/archive/2014-08/message/0