diff --git a/openjpa-xmlmapping-5/pom.xml b/openjpa-xmlmapping-5/pom.xml
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--- a/openjpa-xmlmapping-5/pom.xml
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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!--
- Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
- or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
- distributed with this work for additional information
- regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
- to you 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.   
--->
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
-         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
-    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
-    <groupId>org.apache.openjpa</groupId>
-    <artifactId>openjpa-xmlmapping-5</artifactId>
-    <packaging>jar</packaging>
-    <name>OpenJPA Xmlmapping 1.5</name>
-    <description>OpenJPA Xmlmapping 1.5</description>
-    <url>http://incubator.apache.org/projects/openjpa</url>
-    <parent>
-        <groupId>org.apache.openjpa</groupId>
-        <artifactId>openjpa-parent</artifactId>
-        <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
-    </parent>
-    <dependencies>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.apache.openjpa</groupId>
-            <artifactId>openjpa-kernel</artifactId>
-            <version>${pom.version}</version>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.apache.openjpa</groupId>
-            <artifactId>openjpa-jdbc</artifactId>
-            <version>${pom.version}</version>
-        </dependency>	
-	    <dependency>
-		    <groupId>javax.xml.bind</groupId>
-		    <artifactId>jaxb-api</artifactId>
-		    <version>2.1</version>
-	    </dependency>
-    </dependencies>
-    <build>
-        <plugins>
-            <plugin>
-                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
-                <configuration>
-                    <source>1.5</source>
-                    <target>1.5</target>
-                </configuration>
-            </plugin>
-        </plugins>
-    </build>
-</project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/openjpa-xmlmapping-5/src/main/java/org/apache/openjpa/xmlmapping/XmlValueHandler.java b/openjpa-xmlmapping-5/src/main/java/org/apache/openjpa/xmlmapping/XmlValueHandler.java
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--- a/openjpa-xmlmapping-5/src/main/java/org/apache/openjpa/xmlmapping/XmlValueHandler.java
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@@ -1,97 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
- * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
- * distributed with this work for additional information
- * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
- * to you 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.apache.openjpa.xmlmapping;
-
-import java.io.StringReader;
-import java.io.StringWriter;
-import java.io.Writer;
-
-import javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext;
-import javax.xml.bind.JAXBException;
-import javax.xml.bind.Marshaller;
-import javax.xml.bind.Unmarshaller;
-import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource;
-
-import org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.kernel.JDBCStore;
-import org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.meta.ValueMapping;
-import org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.meta.strats.AbstractValueHandler;
-import org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.schema.Column;
-import org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.schema.ColumnIO;
-import org.apache.openjpa.meta.JavaTypes;
-import org.apache.openjpa.util.InternalException;
-
-/**
- * Base class for xml value handlers.
- *
- * @author Catalina Wei
- * @since 1.0
- */
-public class XmlValueHandler
-    extends AbstractValueHandler {
-    private static final String PROXY_SUFFIX = "$proxy";
-
-    public Column[] map(ValueMapping vm, String name, ColumnIO io,
-        boolean adapt) {
-        Column col = new Column();
-        col.setName(name);
-        col.setJavaType(JavaTypes.STRING);
-        col.setSize(-1);
-        col.setTypeName(vm.getMappingRepository().getDBDictionary()
-            .xmlTypeName);
-        return new Column[]{ col };
-    }
-
-    public Object toDataStoreValue(ValueMapping vm, Object val,
-        JDBCStore store) {
-        // check for null value.
-        if (val == null) 
-            return null;
-        try {
-            JAXBContext jc = JAXBContext.newInstance(
-                // on update val is a proxy, that can not be marshalled.
-                // so we get original type if val is a proxy.
-                (val.getClass().getName().endsWith(PROXY_SUFFIX))
-                     ? val.getClass().getSuperclass()
-                     : val.getClass());
-            Marshaller m = jc.createMarshaller();            
-            Writer result = new StringWriter();
-            m.marshal( val, result );
-            return result.toString();
-        }
-        catch(JAXBException je) {
-            throw new InternalException(je);
-        }
-    }
-
-    public Object toObjectValue(ValueMapping vm, Object val) {
-        // check for null value.
-        if (val == null) 
-            return null;
-        try {
-            String packageName = vm.getDeclaredType().getPackage().getName();
-            JAXBContext jc = JAXBContext.newInstance(packageName);
-            Unmarshaller u = jc.createUnmarshaller();
-            return u.unmarshal(new StreamSource(new StringReader
-                    (val.toString())));
-        }
-        catch(JAXBException je) {
-            throw new InternalException(je);
-        }
-    }
-}