diff --git a/spring-integration-xml/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/xml/router/SchemaValidator.java b/spring-integration-xml/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/xml/router/SchemaValidator.java
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index e6fd201bbf..0000000000
--- a/spring-integration-xml/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/xml/router/SchemaValidator.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,52 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Copyright 2002-2008 the original author or authors.
- *
- * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- * You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-
-package org.springframework.integration.xml.router;
-
-import java.io.IOException;
-
-import javax.xml.transform.Source;
-
-import org.springframework.core.io.Resource;
-import org.springframework.integration.MessagingException;
-import org.springframework.xml.validation.XmlValidationException;
-import org.springframework.xml.validation.XmlValidatorFactory;
-import org.xml.sax.SAXParseException;
-
-public class SchemaValidator implements XmlValidator {
-
-	private final org.springframework.xml.validation.XmlValidator xmlValidator;
-
-	public SchemaValidator(Resource schemaResource, String schemaLanguage)
-			throws IOException {
-		super();
-		this.xmlValidator = XmlValidatorFactory.createValidator(schemaResource,
-				schemaLanguage);
-	}
-
-	public boolean isValid(Source source) {
-		try {
-			SAXParseException[] exceptions = xmlValidator.validate(source);
-			return  exceptions.length < 1;
-		} catch (IOException ioE) {
-			throw new MessagingException(
-					"Exception applying schema validation", ioE);
-		} catch (XmlValidationException validationException){
-			return false;
-		}
-	}
-
-}
diff --git a/spring-integration-xml/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/xml/router/XmlValidator.java b/spring-integration-xml/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/xml/router/XmlValidator.java
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index b32ddb8816..0000000000
--- a/spring-integration-xml/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/xml/router/XmlValidator.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Copyright 2002-2008 the original author or authors.
- *
- * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- * You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-
-package org.springframework.integration.xml.router;
-
-import javax.xml.transform.Source;
-
-public interface XmlValidator {
-	
-	public boolean isValid(Source source) ;
-
-}
diff --git a/spring-integration-xml/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/xml/router/SchemaValidatorTests.java b/spring-integration-xml/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/xml/router/SchemaValidatorTests.java
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index 92642fab79..0000000000
--- a/spring-integration-xml/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/xml/router/SchemaValidatorTests.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,57 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Copyright 2002-2008 the original author or authors.
- *
- * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- * You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-
-package org.springframework.integration.xml.router;
-
-import static org.junit.Assert.*;
-
-import javax.xml.XMLConstants;
-import javax.xml.transform.Source;
-
-import org.junit.Test;
-import org.springframework.core.io.ClassPathResource;
-import org.springframework.integration.xml.util.XmlTestUtil;
-import org.springframework.xml.transform.StringSource;
-
-public class SchemaValidatorTests {
-
-	
-	
-	
-	
-	@Test
-	public void testValidMessageWithXsd() throws Exception{
-		SchemaValidator validator = new SchemaValidator(new ClassPathResource("validationTestsSchema.xsd", SchemaValidator.class), XMLConstants.W3C_XML_SCHEMA_NS_URI);
-		Source source = XmlTestUtil.getDomSourceForString("<greeting>hello</greeting>");
-		assertTrue("Document expected to be valid " ,validator.isValid(source)) ;
-	}
-	
-	@Test
-	public void testInvalidMessageWithXsd() throws Exception{
-		SchemaValidator validator = new SchemaValidator(new ClassPathResource("validationTestsSchema.xsd", SchemaValidator.class), XMLConstants.W3C_XML_SCHEMA_NS_URI);
-		Source source = XmlTestUtil.getDomSourceForString("<notInSchema>hello</notInSchema>");
-		assertFalse("Document not expected to be valid " ,validator.isValid(source)) ;
-	}
-	
-	@Test
-	public void testInvalidXml() throws Exception {
-		SchemaValidator validator = new SchemaValidator(new ClassPathResource("validationTestsSchema.xsd", SchemaValidator.class), XMLConstants.W3C_XML_SCHEMA_NS_URI);
-		Source source =new StringSource("something else");
-		assertFalse("Document not expected to be valid " ,validator.isValid(source)) ;
-	}
-	
-	
-}