diff --git a/endpoints/citrus-http/pom.xml b/endpoints/citrus-http/pom.xml
index 7d12033e39..640190b243 100644
--- a/endpoints/citrus-http/pom.xml
+++ b/endpoints/citrus-http/pom.xml
@@ -65,6 +65,15 @@
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
 
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
+      <artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
+      <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
       <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
diff --git a/endpoints/citrus-http/src/main/java/org/citrusframework/http/actions/HttpServerActionBuilder.java b/endpoints/citrus-http/src/main/java/org/citrusframework/http/actions/HttpServerActionBuilder.java
index ebe65dc94e..9d9c552ba1 100644
--- a/endpoints/citrus-http/src/main/java/org/citrusframework/http/actions/HttpServerActionBuilder.java
+++ b/endpoints/citrus-http/src/main/java/org/citrusframework/http/actions/HttpServerActionBuilder.java
@@ -16,15 +16,21 @@
 
 package org.citrusframework.http.actions;
 
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
 import org.citrusframework.TestAction;
 import org.citrusframework.TestActionBuilder;
 import org.citrusframework.endpoint.Endpoint;
+import org.citrusframework.exceptions.CitrusRuntimeException;
 import org.citrusframework.spi.ReferenceResolver;
 import org.citrusframework.spi.ReferenceResolverAware;
 import org.citrusframework.util.ObjectHelper;
 import org.citrusframework.util.StringUtils;
 import org.springframework.http.HttpMethod;
 import org.springframework.http.HttpStatus;
+import org.springframework.http.MediaType;
+
+import static com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.SerializationFeature.INDENT_OUTPUT;
 
 /**
  * Action executes http server operations such as receiving requests and sending response messages.
@@ -34,6 +40,8 @@
  */
 public class HttpServerActionBuilder implements TestActionBuilder.DelegatingTestActionBuilder<TestAction>, ReferenceResolverAware {
 
+    private static final ObjectMapper OBJECT_MAPPER = new ObjectMapper().enable(INDENT_OUTPUT);
+
     /** Bean reference resolver */
     private ReferenceResolver referenceResolver;
 
@@ -73,6 +81,32 @@ public HttpServerResponseActionBuilder respond(HttpStatus status) {
         return new HttpServerSendActionBuilder().response(status);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Generic response builder for sending JSON response messages to client with response status 200 (OK).
+     *
+     * @return
+     */
+    public HttpServerResponseActionBuilder.HttpMessageBuilderSupport respondOkJson(String json) {
+        return new HttpServerSendActionBuilder()
+                .response(HttpStatus.OK)
+                .message()
+                .contentType(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE)
+                .body(json);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Generic response builder for sending JSON response messages to client with response status 200 (OK).
+     *
+     * @return
+     */
+    public HttpServerResponseActionBuilder.HttpMessageBuilderSupport respondOkJson(Object json) {
+        try {
+            return respondOkJson(OBJECT_MAPPER.writeValueAsString(json));
+        } catch (JsonProcessingException e) {
+            throw new CitrusRuntimeException("Failed to write JSON body as string!", e);
+        }
+    }
+
     /**
      * Receive Http requests as server.
      */
diff --git a/endpoints/citrus-http/src/test/java/org/citrusframework/http/actions/HttpServerActionBuilderTest.java b/endpoints/citrus-http/src/test/java/org/citrusframework/http/actions/HttpServerActionBuilderTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8a2b9aea44
--- /dev/null
+++ b/endpoints/citrus-http/src/test/java/org/citrusframework/http/actions/HttpServerActionBuilderTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+package org.citrusframework.http.actions;
+
+import org.citrusframework.endpoint.Endpoint;
+import org.citrusframework.http.message.HttpMessage;
+import org.springframework.http.HttpStatus;
+import org.springframework.http.MediaType;
+import org.testng.annotations.BeforeMethod;
+import org.testng.annotations.Test;
+
+import static org.mockito.Mockito.mock;
+import static org.springframework.test.util.ReflectionTestUtils.getField;
+import static org.testng.AssertJUnit.assertEquals;
+import static org.testng.AssertJUnit.assertTrue;
+
+public class HttpServerActionBuilderTest {
+
+    private static final TestJsonObject JSON_OBJECT_REPRESENTATION = new TestJsonObject("value");
+    private static final String JSON_STRING_REPRESENTATION = """
+        {
+          "property" : "value"
+        }""";
+
+    private HttpServerActionBuilder fixture;
+
+    private static void verifyOkJsonResponse(HttpServerResponseActionBuilder.HttpMessageBuilderSupport httpMessageBuilderSupport) {
+        Object responseMessage = getField(httpMessageBuilderSupport, "httpMessage");
+        assertTrue(responseMessage instanceof HttpMessage);
+
+        HttpMessage httpMessage = (HttpMessage) responseMessage;
+
+        assertEquals(HttpStatus.OK, httpMessage.getStatusCode());
+        assertEquals(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE, httpMessage.getContentType());
+        assertEquals(JSON_STRING_REPRESENTATION, httpMessage.getPayload(String.class).replace("\r\n", "\n"));
+    }
+
+    @BeforeMethod
+    public void beforeMethodSetup() {
+        fixture = new HttpServerActionBuilder(mock(Endpoint.class));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void sendOkJsonFromString() {
+        HttpServerResponseActionBuilder.HttpMessageBuilderSupport httpMessageBuilderSupport = fixture.respondOkJson(JSON_STRING_REPRESENTATION);
+        verifyOkJsonResponse(httpMessageBuilderSupport);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void sendOkJsonFromObject() {
+        HttpServerResponseActionBuilder.HttpMessageBuilderSupport httpMessageBuilderSupport = fixture.respondOkJson(JSON_OBJECT_REPRESENTATION);
+        verifyOkJsonResponse(httpMessageBuilderSupport);
+    }
+
+    private record TestJsonObject(String property) {
+    }
+}