diff --git a/release-notes/CREDITS b/release-notes/CREDITS
index ce0cae00d3..9e62a52bb2 100644
--- a/release-notes/CREDITS
+++ b/release-notes/CREDITS
@@ -245,3 +245,8 @@ Andrew Duckett (andrewduckett@github)
   * Reported #771: Annotation bundles ignored when added to Mixin
    (2.5.4)
 
+Charles Allen:
+  * Contributed #785: Add handlings for classes which are available in
+    `Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader()`
+   (2.5.4)
+
diff --git a/release-notes/VERSION b/release-notes/VERSION
index a5b592942b..18c56e8d27 100644
--- a/release-notes/VERSION
+++ b/release-notes/VERSION
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ Project: jackson-databind
  (reported by Andrew D)
 #774: NPE from SqlDateSerializer as _useTimestamp is not checked for being null
  (reported by mrowkow@github)
+#785: Add handlings for classes which are available in `Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader()`
+ (contributed by Charles A)
 - Fix handling of Enums wrt JSON Schema, when 'toString()' used for serialization
 
 2.5.3 (24-Apr-2015)
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/databind/introspect/AnnotatedClass.java b/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/databind/introspect/AnnotatedClass.java
index 0473a11352..019b7be334 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/databind/introspect/AnnotatedClass.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/databind/introspect/AnnotatedClass.java
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ private void resolveCreators()
         List<AnnotatedMethod> creatorMethods = null;
         
         // Then static methods which are potential factory methods
-        for (Method m : _class.getDeclaredMethods()) {
+        for (Method m : _findClassMethods(_class)) {
             if (!Modifier.isStatic(m.getModifiers())) {
                 continue;
             }
@@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ private void resolveCreators()
         }
         _creatorsResolved = true;
     }
-    
+
     /**
      * Method for resolving member method information: aggregating all non-static methods
      * and combining annotations (to implement method-annotation inheritance)
@@ -598,9 +598,8 @@ protected void _addMemberMethods(Class<?> cls, AnnotatedMethodMap methods,
         if (cls == null) { // just so caller need not check when passing super-class
             return;
         }
-
         // then methods from the class itself
-        for (Method m : cls.getDeclaredMethods()) {
+        for (Method m : _findClassMethods(cls)) {
             if (!_isIncludableMemberMethod(m)) {
                 continue;
             }
@@ -1016,6 +1015,37 @@ private final boolean _isAnnotationBundle(Annotation ann) {
         return (_annotationIntrospector != null) && _annotationIntrospector.isAnnotationBundle(ann);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Helper method that gets methods declared in given class; usually a simple thing,
+     * but sometimes (as per [databind#785]) more complicated, depending on classloader
+     * setup.
+     *
+     * @since 2.4.7
+     */
+    protected Method[] _findClassMethods(Class<?> cls)
+    {
+        try {
+            return cls.getDeclaredMethods();
+        } catch (final NoClassDefFoundError ex) {
+            // One of the methods had a class that was not found in the cls.getClassLoader.
+            // Maybe the developer was nice and has a different class loader for this context.
+            final ClassLoader loader = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader();
+            if(loader == null){
+                // Nope... this is going to end poorly
+                throw ex;
+            }
+            final Class<?> contextClass;
+            try {
+                contextClass = loader.loadClass(cls.getName());
+            } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
+                // !!! TODO: 08-May-2015, tatu: Chain appropriately once we have JDK7 as baseline
+                //ex.addSuppressed(e); Not until 1.7
+               throw ex;
+            }
+            return contextClass.getDeclaredMethods(); // Cross fingers
+        }
+    }
+
     /*
     /**********************************************************
     /* Other methods