diff --git a/spring-integration-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/config/xml/PayloadDeserializingTransformerParserTests.java b/spring-integration-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/config/xml/PayloadDeserializingTransformerParserTests.java
index cfb38ff629..692e7b7b2f 100644
--- a/spring-integration-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/config/xml/PayloadDeserializingTransformerParserTests.java
+++ b/spring-integration-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/config/xml/PayloadDeserializingTransformerParserTests.java
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
 import java.io.ObjectOutputStream;
 import java.io.Serializable;
 import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
-import java.nio.charset.Charset;
 
 import org.junit.Test;
 import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
@@ -107,7 +106,7 @@ public class PayloadDeserializingTransformerParserTests {
 
 	@Test
 	public void customConverter() throws Exception {
-		customConverterInput.send(new GenericMessage<byte[]>("test".getBytes(Charset.forName("UTF-8"))));
+		customConverterInput.send(new GenericMessage<byte[]>("test".getBytes("UTF-8")));
 		Message<?> result = output.receive(3000);
 		assertNotNull(result);
 		assertEquals(String.class, result.getPayload().getClass());
diff --git a/spring-integration-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/config/xml/PayloadSerializingTransformerParserTests.java b/spring-integration-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/config/xml/PayloadSerializingTransformerParserTests.java
index 118dc37466..3ec6df8bd0 100644
--- a/spring-integration-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/config/xml/PayloadSerializingTransformerParserTests.java
+++ b/spring-integration-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/config/xml/PayloadSerializingTransformerParserTests.java
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
 import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
 import java.io.Serializable;
 import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
-import java.nio.charset.Charset;
 
 import org.junit.Test;
 import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
@@ -109,7 +108,7 @@ public class PayloadSerializingTransformerParserTests {
 		Message<?> result = output.receive(3000);
 		assertNotNull(result);
 		assertEquals(byte[].class, result.getPayload().getClass());
-		assertEquals("TEST", new String((byte[]) result.getPayload(), Charset.forName("UTF-8")));
+		assertEquals("TEST", new String((byte[]) result.getPayload(), "UTF-8"));
 	}