diff --git a/akka-actor-tests/src/test/scala/akka/serialization/SerializeSpec.scala b/akka-actor-tests/src/test/scala/akka/serialization/SerializeSpec.scala
index 553f6cf45b..3125431fb5 100644
--- a/akka-actor-tests/src/test/scala/akka/serialization/SerializeSpec.scala
+++ b/akka-actor-tests/src/test/scala/akka/serialization/SerializeSpec.scala
@@ -182,21 +182,15 @@ class SerializeSpec extends AkkaSpec(SerializeSpec.config) {
 
     "use ByteArraySerializer for byte arrays" in {
       val byteSerializer = ser.serializerFor(classOf[Array[Byte]])
-      byteSerializer.getClass must be(classOf[ByteArraySerializer])
+      byteSerializer.getClass must be theSameInstanceAs classOf[ByteArraySerializer]
 
-      val ba = "foo".getBytes("UTF-8")
-
-      (byteSerializer.toBinary(ba) eq ba) must be === true
-      (byteSerializer.fromBinary(ba) eq ba) must be === true
+      for (a ← Seq("foo".getBytes("UTF-8"), null: Array[Byte], Array[Byte]()))
+        byteSerializer.fromBinary(byteSerializer.toBinary(a)) must be theSameInstanceAs a
 
       intercept[IllegalArgumentException] {
         byteSerializer.toBinary("pigdog")
       }.getMessage must be === "ByteArraySerializer only serializes byte arrays, not [pigdog]"
-
-      byteSerializer.toBinary(null) must be === null
-
     }
-
   }
 }
 
diff --git a/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/actor/DynamicAccess.scala b/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/actor/DynamicAccess.scala
index 4370bba23b..7a73eb3b15 100644
--- a/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/actor/DynamicAccess.scala
+++ b/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/actor/DynamicAccess.scala
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ class ReflectiveDynamicAccess(val classLoader: ClassLoader) extends DynamicAcces
 
   override def getClassFor[T: ClassTag](fqcn: String): Try[Class[_ <: T]] =
     Try[Class[_ <: T]]({
-      val c = Class.forName(fqcn, true, classLoader).asInstanceOf[Class[_ <: T]]
+      val c = Class.forName(fqcn, false, classLoader).asInstanceOf[Class[_ <: T]]
       val t = implicitly[ClassTag[T]].runtimeClass
       if (t.isAssignableFrom(c)) c else throw new ClassCastException(t + " is not assignable from " + c)
     })
@@ -101,5 +101,4 @@ class ReflectiveDynamicAccess(val classLoader: ClassLoader) extends DynamicAcces
       } recover { case i: InvocationTargetException if i.getTargetException ne null ⇒ throw i.getTargetException }
     }
   }
-
 }
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