diff --git a/ivy.xml b/ivy.xml
index 26e22783f..c57eecaba 100644
--- a/ivy.xml
+++ b/ivy.xml
@@ -88,9 +88,6 @@
         <!-- fileupload -->
         <dependency org="apache" name="commons-fileupload" rev="1.1" conf="fileupload->default"/>
 
-        <!-- fileupload-pell -->
-        <dependency org="pell" name="multipartrequest" rev="1.19" conf="fileupload-pell->default"/>
-
         <!-- sitemesh -->
         <dependency org="opensymphony" name="sitemesh" rev="2.2.1" conf="sitemesh->default"/>
 
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/struts/action2/dispatcher/multipart/PellMultiPartRequest.java b/src/java/org/apache/struts/action2/dispatcher/multipart/PellMultiPartRequest.java
deleted file mode 100644
index d2d1323fb..000000000
--- a/src/java/org/apache/struts/action2/dispatcher/multipart/PellMultiPartRequest.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,129 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Copyright (c) 2002-2003 by OpenSymphony
- * All rights reserved.
- */
-package org.apache.struts.action2.dispatcher.multipart;
-
-import org.apache.struts.action2.config.Configuration;
-import org.apache.struts.action2.WebWorkConstants;
-import http.utils.multipartrequest.ServletMultipartRequest;
-
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
-import java.io.File;
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
-import java.util.ArrayList;
-import java.util.Collections;
-import java.util.Enumeration;
-import java.util.List;
-
-
-/**
- * Multipart form data request adapter for Jason Pell's multipart utils package.
- *
- * @author <a href="matt@smallleap.com">Matt Baldree</a> (modified for WW's use)
- * @author <a href="scott@atlassian.com">Scott Farquhar</a> (added i18n handling (WW-109))
- */
-public class PellMultiPartRequest extends MultiPartRequest {
-
-    private ServletMultipartRequest multi;
-
-
-    /**
-     * Creates a new request wrapper to handle multi-part data using methods adapted from Jason Pell's
-     * multipart classes (see class description).
-     *
-     * @param maxSize        maximum size post allowed
-     * @param saveDir        the directory to save off the file
-     * @param servletRequest the request containing the multipart
-     */
-    public PellMultiPartRequest(HttpServletRequest servletRequest, String saveDir, int maxSize) throws IOException {
-        //this needs to be synchronised, as we should not change the encoding at the same time as
-        //calling the constructor.  See javadoc for MultipartRequest.setEncoding().
-        synchronized (this) {
-            setEncoding();
-            multi = new ServletMultipartRequest(servletRequest, saveDir, maxSize);
-        }
-    }
-
-
-    public Enumeration getFileParameterNames() {
-        return multi.getFileParameterNames();
-    }
-
-    public String[] getContentType(String fieldName) {
-        return new String[]{multi.getContentType(fieldName)};
-    }
-
-    public File[] getFile(String fieldName) {
-        return new File[]{multi.getFile(fieldName)};
-    }
-
-    public String[] getFileNames(String fieldName) {
-
-        // TODO - not sure about this - is this the filename of the actual file or
-        // TODO - the uploaded filename as provided by the browser?
-        // TODO - Not sure what version of Pell this class uses as it doesn't seem to be the latest
-        return new String[]{multi.getFile(fieldName).getName()};
-    }
-
-    public String[] getFilesystemName(String fieldName) {
-        return new String[]{multi.getFileSystemName(fieldName)};
-    }
-
-    public String getParameter(String name) {
-        return multi.getURLParameter(name);
-    }
-
-    public Enumeration getParameterNames() {
-        return multi.getParameterNames();
-    }
-
-    public String[] getParameterValues(String name) {
-        Enumeration enumeration = multi.getURLParameters(name);
-
-        if (!enumeration.hasMoreElements()) {
-            return null;
-        }
-
-        List values = new ArrayList();
-
-        while (enumeration.hasMoreElements()) {
-            values.add(enumeration.nextElement());
-        }
-
-        return (String[]) values.toArray(new String[values.size()]);
-    }
-
-    public List getErrors() {
-        return Collections.EMPTY_LIST;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * Sets the encoding for the uploaded params.  This needs to be set if you are using character sets other than
-     * ASCII.
-     * <p/>
-     * The encoding is looked up from the configuration setting 'webwork.i18n.encoding'.  This is usually set in
-     * default.properties & webwork.properties.
-     */
-    private static void setEncoding() {
-        String encoding = null;
-
-        try {
-            encoding = Configuration.getString(WebWorkConstants.WEBWORK_I18N_ENCODING);
-
-            if (encoding != null) {
-                //NB: This should never be called at the same time as the constructor for
-                //ServletMultiPartRequest, as it can cause problems.
-                //See javadoc for MultipartRequest.setEncoding()
-                http.utils.multipartrequest.MultipartRequest.setEncoding(encoding);
-            } else {
-                http.utils.multipartrequest.MultipartRequest.setEncoding("UTF-8");
-            }
-        } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
-            log.info("Could not get encoding property 'webwork.i18n.encoding' for file upload.  Using system default");
-        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
-            log.error("Encoding " + encoding + " is not a valid encoding.  Please check your webwork.properties file.");
-        }
-    }
-}