diff --git a/org.springframework.oxm/src/main/java/org/springframework/oxm/jaxb/Jaxb2Marshaller.java b/org.springframework.oxm/src/main/java/org/springframework/oxm/jaxb/Jaxb2Marshaller.java
index 2d23572100d..12cae278baa 100644
--- a/org.springframework.oxm/src/main/java/org/springframework/oxm/jaxb/Jaxb2Marshaller.java
+++ b/org.springframework.oxm/src/main/java/org/springframework/oxm/jaxb/Jaxb2Marshaller.java
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 
 package org.springframework.oxm.jaxb;
 
-import java.awt.*;
+import java.awt.Image;
 import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
@@ -65,13 +65,6 @@ import javax.xml.transform.sax.SAXSource;
 import javax.xml.validation.Schema;
 import javax.xml.validation.SchemaFactory;
 
-import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
-import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
-import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
-import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
-import org.xml.sax.XMLReader;
-import org.xml.sax.helpers.XMLReaderFactory;
-
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanClassLoaderAware;
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.InitializingBean;
 import org.springframework.core.annotation.AnnotationUtils;
@@ -94,6 +87,14 @@ import org.springframework.util.ObjectUtils;
 import org.springframework.util.StringUtils;
 import org.springframework.util.xml.StaxUtils;
 
+import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
+import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
+import org.w3c.dom.ls.LSResourceResolver;
+import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
+import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
+import org.xml.sax.XMLReader;
+import org.xml.sax.helpers.XMLReaderFactory;
+
 /**
  * Implementation of the <code>Marshaller</code> interface for JAXB 2.0.
  *
@@ -160,6 +161,8 @@ public class Jaxb2Marshaller
 
 	private boolean supportJaxbElementClass = false;
 
+    private LSResourceResolver schemaResourceResolver;
+
 
 	/**
 	 * Set multiple JAXB context paths. The given array of context paths is converted to a
@@ -286,7 +289,17 @@ public class Jaxb2Marshaller
 		this.schemaLanguage = schemaLanguage;
 	}
 
-	/**
+    /**
+     * Sets the resource resolver, as used to load the schema resources.
+     * @see SchemaFactory#setResourceResolver(org.w3c.dom.ls.LSResourceResolver)
+     * @see #setSchema(Resource)
+     * @see #setSchemas(Resource[])
+     */
+    public void setSchemaResourceResolver(LSResourceResolver schemaResourceResolver) {
+        this.schemaResourceResolver = schemaResourceResolver;
+    }
+
+    /**
 	 * Specify whether MTOM support should be enabled or not.
 	 * Default is <code>false</code>: marshalling using XOP/MTOM not being enabled.
 	 */
@@ -407,6 +420,9 @@ public class Jaxb2Marshaller
 			schemaSources[i] = new SAXSource(xmlReader, inputSource);
 		}
 		SchemaFactory schemaFactory = SchemaFactory.newInstance(schemaLanguage);
+        if (schemaResourceResolver != null) {
+            schemaFactory.setResourceResolver(schemaResourceResolver);
+        }
 		return schemaFactory.newSchema(schemaSources);
 	}