diff --git a/openbis/source/java/ch/systemsx/cisd/openbis/generic/server/util/XmlUtils.java b/openbis/source/java/ch/systemsx/cisd/openbis/generic/server/util/XmlUtils.java
deleted file mode 100644
index bdba65127ceff2597b2827f75b8b15fd1b824cfd..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/openbis/source/java/ch/systemsx/cisd/openbis/generic/server/util/XmlUtils.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,103 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Copyright 2010 ETH Zuerich, CISD
- *
- * 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 ch.systemsx.cisd.openbis.generic.server.util;
-
-import java.io.File;
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.StringReader;
-import java.net.URL;
-
-import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
-import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
-import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource;
-import javax.xml.validation.Schema;
-import javax.xml.validation.Validator;
-
-import org.w3c.dom.Document;
-import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
-import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
-
-import ch.systemsx.cisd.common.exceptions.UserFailureException;
-import ch.systemsx.cisd.common.utilities.XMLInfraStructure;
-
-/**
- * Utility methods for parsing and validating XML files.
- * 
- * @author Piotr Buczek
- */
-public class XmlUtils
-{
-    public static String XML_SCHEMA_XSD_URL = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema.xsd";
-
-    public static String XSLT_XSD_URL = "http://www.w3.org/2007/schema-for-xslt20.xsd";
-
-    public static String XML_SCHEMA_XSD_FILE_RESOURCE = "/XMLSchema.xsd";
-
-    public static String XSLT_XSD_FILE_RESOURCE = "/schema-for-xslt20.xsd";
-
-    /**
-     * Parse given string as XML {@link Document}.
-     * 
-     * @throws UserFailureException if provided value is not a well-formed XML document
-     */
-    public static Document parseXmlDocument(String value)
-    {
-        DocumentBuilderFactory dBF = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
-        dBF.setNamespaceAware(true);
-        InputSource is = new InputSource(new StringReader(value));
-        try
-        {
-            return dBF.newDocumentBuilder().parse(is);
-        } catch (Exception e)
-        {
-            throw UserFailureException.fromTemplate(
-                    "Provided value:\n\n%s\n\nisn't a well formed XML document. %s", value, e
-                            .getMessage());
-        }
-    }
-
-    /** validate given document against the specified schema */
-    public static void validate(Document document, String xmlSchema) throws SAXException,
-            IOException
-    {
-        validate(document, XMLInfraStructure.createSchema(new StreamSource(new StringReader(
-                xmlSchema))));
-    }
-
-    /** validate given document against the schema specified by URL */
-    public static void validate(Document document, URL schemaURL) throws SAXException, IOException
-    {
-        validate(document, XMLInfraStructure.createSchema(schemaURL));
-    }
-
-    /** validate given document against the schema specified in File */
-    public static void validate(Document document, File schemaFile) throws SAXException,
-            IOException
-    {
-        validate(document, XMLInfraStructure.createSchema(schemaFile));
-    }
-
-    /** validate given document against the specified schema */
-    public static void validate(Document document, Schema schema) throws SAXException, IOException
-    {
-        // create a Validator instance, which can be used to validate an instance document
-        Validator validator = schema.newValidator();
-        // validate the DOM tree
-        validator.validate(new DOMSource(document));
-    }
-
-}
diff --git a/openbis/sourceTest/java/ch/systemsx/cisd/openbis/generic/server/util/XmlUtilsTest.java b/openbis/sourceTest/java/ch/systemsx/cisd/openbis/generic/server/util/XmlUtilsTest.java
index d2c77cc444a2763b20115a969f7419c56f5c70da..7ae108afa5945306340f264900977860235bac0b 100644
--- a/openbis/sourceTest/java/ch/systemsx/cisd/openbis/generic/server/util/XmlUtilsTest.java
+++ b/openbis/sourceTest/java/ch/systemsx/cisd/openbis/generic/server/util/XmlUtilsTest.java
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ import org.xml.sax.SAXParseException;
 
 import ch.systemsx.cisd.common.exceptions.UserFailureException;
 import ch.systemsx.cisd.common.utilities.XMLInfraStructure;
+import ch.systemsx.cisd.openbis.generic.server.dataaccess.XmlUtils;
 
 /**
  * Tests of {@link XmlUtils}.