diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 032112212..ea13c4f42 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 		<javaslang>2.0.4</javaslang>
 		<vavr>0.9.0</vavr>
 		<scala>2.11.7</scala>
-		<xmlbeam>1.4.8</xmlbeam>
+		<xmlbeam>1.4.12</xmlbeam>
 	</properties>
 
 	<dependencies>
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/web/XmlBeamHttpMessageConverter.java b/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/web/XmlBeamHttpMessageConverter.java
index 3c291188f..9f6107d6c 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/web/XmlBeamHttpMessageConverter.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/web/XmlBeamHttpMessageConverter.java
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ import org.springframework.http.converter.HttpMessageConverter;
 import org.springframework.http.converter.HttpMessageNotReadableException;
 import org.springframework.http.converter.HttpMessageNotWritableException;
 import org.springframework.util.ConcurrentReferenceHashMap;
-import org.xmlbeam.ProjectionFactory;
 import org.xmlbeam.XBProjector;
 
 /**
@@ -43,7 +42,7 @@ import org.xmlbeam.XBProjector;
  */
 public class XmlBeamHttpMessageConverter extends AbstractHttpMessageConverter<Object> {
 
-	private final ProjectionFactory projectionFactory;
+	private final XBProjector projectionFactory;
 	private final Map<Class<?>, Boolean> supportedTypesCache = new ConcurrentReferenceHashMap<>();
 
 	/**
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/web/config/SpringDataWebConfigurationIntegrationTests.java b/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/web/config/SpringDataWebConfigurationIntegrationTests.java
index 4347ac044..f4205eb13 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/web/config/SpringDataWebConfigurationIntegrationTests.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/web/config/SpringDataWebConfigurationIntegrationTests.java
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ import org.springframework.data.classloadersupport.HidingClassLoader;
 import org.springframework.data.web.ProjectingJackson2HttpMessageConverter;
 import org.springframework.data.web.XmlBeamHttpMessageConverter;
 import org.springframework.http.converter.HttpMessageConverter;
-import org.xmlbeam.ProjectionFactory;
+import org.xmlbeam.XBProjector;
 
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
 import com.jayway.jsonpath.DocumentContext;
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ public class SpringDataWebConfigurationIntegrationTests {
 
 		List<HttpMessageConverter<?>> converters = new ArrayList<HttpMessageConverter<?>>();
 
-		ClassLoader classLoader = HidingClassLoader.hide(ProjectionFactory.class);
+		ClassLoader classLoader = HidingClassLoader.hide(XBProjector.class);
 		createConfigWithClassLoader(classLoader).extendMessageConverters(converters);
 
 		assertThat(converters).areNot(instanceWithClassName(XmlBeamHttpMessageConverter.class));