diff --git a/activemq-web/pom.xml b/activemq-web/pom.xml
index ea51dbf309..a522817c83 100644
--- a/activemq-web/pom.xml
+++ b/activemq-web/pom.xml
@@ -58,10 +58,6 @@
       <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
       <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
     </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>javax.xml.bind</groupId>
-      <artifactId>jaxb-api</artifactId>
-    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
       <artifactId>activemq-unit-tests</artifactId>
diff --git a/activemq-web/src/main/java/org/apache/activemq/web/WebClient.java b/activemq-web/src/main/java/org/apache/activemq/web/WebClient.java
index cbf8ecf7bc..2202f51bd6 100644
--- a/activemq-web/src/main/java/org/apache/activemq/web/WebClient.java
+++ b/activemq-web/src/main/java/org/apache/activemq/web/WebClient.java
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.ObjectInput;
 import java.io.ObjectOutput;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Base64;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.Iterator;
 import java.util.List;
@@ -385,7 +386,7 @@ public class WebClient implements HttpSessionActivationListener, HttpSessionBind
             String[] tokens = auth.split(" ");
             if (tokens.length == 2) {
                 String encoded = tokens[1].trim();
-                String credentials = new String(javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter.parseBase64Binary(encoded));
+                String credentials = new String(Base64.getDecoder().decode(encoded));
                 String[] creds = credentials.split(":");
                 if (creds.length == 2) {
                     client.setUsername(creds[0]);