diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 708088590..12fa3c408 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 		<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 f258e8ee4..be0dc7992 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/web/XmlBeamHttpMessageConverter.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/web/XmlBeamHttpMessageConverter.java
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ 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;
 
 /**
@@ -40,7 +39,7 @@ 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<Class<?>, Boolean>();
 
 	/**
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 2700b1e37..4023181a8 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/web/config/SpringDataWebConfigurationIntegrationTests.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/web/config/SpringDataWebConfigurationIntegrationTests.java
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ 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;
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ 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, not(hasItem(instanceWithClassName(XmlBeamHttpMessageConverter.class))));