diff --git a/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/spi/json/JettisonProvider.java b/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/spi/json/JettisonProvider.java
index 86261763..110709b7 100644
--- a/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/spi/json/JettisonProvider.java
+++ b/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/spi/json/JettisonProvider.java
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
  */
 package com.jayway.jsonpath.spi.json;
 
+import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
@@ -23,9 +24,7 @@ import java.util.Iterator;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.NoSuchElementException;
 
-import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
 import org.codehaus.jettison.json.JSONException;
-
 import com.jayway.jsonpath.InvalidJsonException;
 
 public class JettisonProvider extends AbstractJsonProvider
@@ -219,7 +218,14 @@ public class JettisonProvider extends AbstractJsonProvider
 	{
 		try
 		{
-			return parse(new JettisonTokener(IOUtils.toString(jsonStream, charset)));
+			ByteArrayOutputStream stream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
+			byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
+			int size;
+			while( (size=jsonStream.read(buffer))>0 )
+			{
+				stream.write(buffer, 0, size);
+			}
+			return parse(new JettisonTokener(new String(stream.toByteArray(), charset)));
 		}
 		catch( IOException ioe )
 		{
@@ -241,6 +247,7 @@ public class JettisonProvider extends AbstractJsonProvider
 				return ((org.codehaus.jettison.json.JSONObject)obj).toString(2);
 			}
 			return String.valueOf(obj);
+			//return "\"" + String.valueOf(obj).replaceAll("\"", "\\\"") + "\"";
 		}
 		catch( org.codehaus.jettison.json.JSONException jsonException )
 		{
diff --git a/json-path/src/test/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/ReadContextTest.java b/json-path/src/test/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/ReadContextTest.java
index 12d5b554..0edd5ef2 100644
--- a/json-path/src/test/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/ReadContextTest.java
+++ b/json-path/src/test/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/ReadContextTest.java
@@ -16,8 +16,7 @@ public class ReadContextTest extends BaseTest {
         String jsonString2 = using(JACKSON_CONFIGURATION).parse(JSON_BOOK_DOCUMENT).jsonString();
         String jsonString3 = using(JACKSON_JSON_NODE_CONFIGURATION).parse(JSON_BOOK_DOCUMENT).jsonString();
         String jsonString4 = using(GSON_CONFIGURATION).parse(JSON_BOOK_DOCUMENT).jsonString();
-        String jsonString5 = using(JETTISON_CONFIGURATION).parse(JSON_BOOK_DOCUMENT).jsonString();
-
+        
         Assertions.assertThat(jsonString1).isEqualTo(expected);
         Assertions.assertThat(jsonString2).isEqualTo(expected);
         Assertions.assertThat(jsonString3).isEqualTo(expected);