diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/digester3/ObjectCreateRuleLazyLoader.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/digester3/ObjectCreateRuleLazyLoader.java
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--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/digester3/ObjectCreateRuleLazyLoader.java
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-package org.apache.commons.digester3;
-
-/*
- * 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.
- */
-
-import static org.apache.commons.beanutils.ConvertUtils.convert;
-
-import java.lang.reflect.Constructor;
-
-import net.sf.cglib.proxy.LazyLoader;
-
-final class ObjectCreateRuleLazyLoader
-    implements LazyLoader
-{
-
-    private final Constructor<?> constructor;
-
-    private final Class<?>[] paramTypes;
-
-    private final Object[] parameters;
-
-    public ObjectCreateRuleLazyLoader( Constructor<?> constructor,
-                                  Class<?>[] paramTypes,
-                                  Object[] parameters )
-    {
-        this.constructor = constructor;
-        this.paramTypes = paramTypes;
-        this.parameters = parameters;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * {@inheritDoc}
-     */
-    public Object loadObject()
-        throws Exception
-    {
-        // this piece of code is borrowed from CallMethodRule
-        Object[] paramValues = new Object[paramTypes.length];
-        for ( int i = 0; i < paramTypes.length; i++ )
-        {
-            // convert nulls and convert stringy parameters
-            // for non-stringy param types
-            if ( parameters[i] == null
-                || ( parameters[i] instanceof String && !String.class.isAssignableFrom( paramTypes[i] ) ) )
-            {
-                paramValues[i] = convert( (String) parameters[i], paramTypes[i] );
-            }
-            else
-            {
-                paramValues[i] = parameters[i];
-            }
-        }
-
-        return constructor.newInstance( paramValues );
-    }
-
-}