diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1069e33dde8..006659a92d9 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 ## UNRELEASED
 ### Changed
 - Added `TC_DAEMON` JDBC URL flag to prevent `ContainerDatabaseDriver` from shutting down containers at the time all connections are closed. (#359, #360)
+- Removed unused Jersey dependencies (#361)
 
 ## [1.3.0] - 2017-06-05
 ### Fixed
diff --git a/core/pom.xml b/core/pom.xml
index 7d6eb11395e..e7e8935720e 100644
--- a/core/pom.xml
+++ b/core/pom.xml
@@ -26,9 +26,23 @@
                     <groupId>de.gesellix</groupId>
                     <artifactId>unix-socket-factory</artifactId>
                 </exclusion>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.core</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>*</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.connectors</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>*</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
             </exclusions>
         </dependency>
 
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>javax.ws.rs</groupId>
+            <artifactId>javax.ws.rs-api</artifactId>
+            <version>2.0.1</version>
+        </dependency>
+
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.rnorth</groupId>
             <artifactId>tcp-unix-socket-proxy</artifactId>