JobServiceImpl Error while deserializing execution context: Cannot construct type using xstream thoughtworks 1.4.20 and jettison 1.5.3

Question

I was using Spring batch 4.2.7 and I'd custom ExecutionContextSerializer class using jettison 1.2 and thoughtworks xstream 1.4.20. Serializable class is as follow.

public class XStreamExecutionContextStringSerializer2 implements ExecutionContextSerializer, InitializingBean {
    private ReflectionProvider reflectionProvider = null;

    private HierarchicalStreamDriver hierarchicalStreamDriver;

    private XStream xstream;

    public void setReflectionProvider(ReflectionProvider reflectionProvider) {
        this.reflectionProvider = reflectionProvider;
    }

    public void setHierarchicalStreamDriver(HierarchicalStreamDriver hierarchicalStreamDriver) {
        this.hierarchicalStreamDriver = hierarchicalStreamDriver;
    }

    @Override
    public void afterPropertiesSet() throws Exception {
        init();
    }

    public synchronized void init() throws Exception {
        if (hierarchicalStreamDriver == null) {
            Configuration configuration = new Configuration();
            this.hierarchicalStreamDriver = new JettisonMappedXmlDriver(configuration);
        }
        if (reflectionProvider == null) {
            xstream = new XStream(hierarchicalStreamDriver);

        } else {
            xstream = new XStream(reflectionProvider, hierarchicalStreamDriver);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Serializes the passed execution context to the supplied OutputStream.
     *
     * @param context {@link Map} containing the context information.
     * @param out     {@link OutputStream} where the serialized context information
     *                will be written.
     *
     * @see Serializer#serialize(Object, OutputStream)
     */
    @Override
    public void serialize(Map<String, Object> context, OutputStream out) throws IOException {
        Assert.notNull(context, "context is required");
        Assert.notNull(out, "An OutputStream is required");

        out.write(xstream.toXML(context).getBytes());
    }

    /**
     * Deserializes the supplied input stream into a new execution context.
     *
     * @param in {@link InputStream} containing the information to be deserialized.
     * 
     * @return a reconstructed execution context
     * @see Deserializer#deserialize(InputStream)
     */
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    @Override
    public Map<String, Object> deserialize(InputStream in) throws IOException {
        BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));

        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

        String line;
        while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
            sb.append(line);
        }

        return (Map<String, Object>) xstream.fromXML(sb.toString());
    }
}

As I've upgraded jettison to 1.5.3, it started failing at deserialization, with following error

JobServiceImpl Error while deserializing execution context: Cannot construct type
---- Debugging information ----
message             : Cannot construct type
cause-exception     : java.lang.InstantiationException
cause-message       : java.util.Map$Entry
construction-type   : java.util.Map$Entry
class               : java.util.Map$Entry
required-type       : java.util.Map$Entry
converter-type      : com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.reflection.ReflectionConverter
path                : /map/map/entry
line number         : -1
class[1]            : java.util.HashMap
required-type[1]    : java.util.HashMap
converter-type[1]   : com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.collections.MapConverter
version             : 1.4.20
-------------------------------Stack Trace:[Ljava.lang.StackTraceElement;@441bcb7a

I've tried to add use the solution of updating batch*_*job_execution_context and batch_step_execution_context as per below stackoverflow solution, but still it is not working. Can someone please help?

Spring Batch 4.2.4: Unable to deserialize the execution context