Provide full support for serialization to http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Mongo+Extended+JSON. This can be useful for REST interfaces or other tools that use the java driver.

So as not to break existing applications that rely on the current behavior, the output of the com.mongodb.util.JSON.serialize method will not be changed. Instead, use the following:

com.mongodb.util.JSONSerializers.getStrict().serialize(...)