Jersey post consume always calls objects default constructor

Question

The non default constructor is never called in my Person class when I attempt to consume rest service which takes Person as a parameter.

Here is my Person Class:

@XmlRootElement(name = "person")
public class Person {

protected String name;

public Person(String name) {
    this.name=name;
}

// default constructor
public Person(){this.name="";}

@XmlElement(required=true, name="name")
public String getName() {
    return name;
}

public void setName(String name) {
    this.name = name;
};

}

Here is my web method:

@Path("person/")
public class PostResource {

@Path("create")
@POST
@Produces("text/plain")
@Consumes("application/json")
public String createPerson(Person person) {
    return person.getName();
}
}

Here is the body of my rest call:

{

"person": { "name":"some name"}

}

The name of the person object passed createPerson is always blank (or whatever I specify in the default constructor)

Any clue why??? Also the method does return successfully so it is responding right just not accepting the object properly