diff --git a/jackrabbit-jcr-commons/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/commons/json/JsonHandler.java b/jackrabbit-jcr-commons/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/commons/json/JsonHandler.java
index 0f55db30c47..3b71a4fb278 100644
--- a/jackrabbit-jcr-commons/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/commons/json/JsonHandler.java
+++ b/jackrabbit-jcr-commons/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/commons/json/JsonHandler.java
@@ -21,7 +21,9 @@
 /**
  * The <code>JSONHandler</code> interface receives notifications from the
  * <code>JsonParser</code>.
+ * @deprecated use <a href="https://jakartaee.github.io/jsonp-api/docs/api/?overview-summary.html">JSON Processing API</a> instead.
  */
+@Deprecated(since="2.24.0")
 public interface JsonHandler {
 
     /**
diff --git a/jackrabbit-jcr-commons/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/commons/json/JsonParser.java b/jackrabbit-jcr-commons/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/commons/json/JsonParser.java
index 529d48690b6..2433e83e493 100644
--- a/jackrabbit-jcr-commons/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/commons/json/JsonParser.java
+++ b/jackrabbit-jcr-commons/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/commons/json/JsonParser.java
@@ -29,7 +29,9 @@
  * <code>JsonParser</code> parses and validates the JSON object passed upon 
  * {@link #parse(String)} or {@link #parse(InputStream, String)} and notifies
  * the specified <code>JsonHandler</code>
+ * @deprecated use <a href="https://jakartaee.github.io/jsonp-api/docs/api/?overview-summary.html">JSON Processing API</a> instead.
  */
+@Deprecated(since="2.24.0")
 public class JsonParser {
 
     private static final String NULL = "null";