diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 7059b65..bdc91e5 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
     <groupId>net.helenus</groupId>
     <artifactId>helenus-core</artifactId>
-    <version>2.0.11-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>2.0.12-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
     <name>helenus</name>
diff --git a/src/main/java/net/helenus/core/reflect/MapperInvocationHandler.java b/src/main/java/net/helenus/core/reflect/MapperInvocationHandler.java
index b77ba50..467c857 100644
--- a/src/main/java/net/helenus/core/reflect/MapperInvocationHandler.java
+++ b/src/main/java/net/helenus/core/reflect/MapperInvocationHandler.java
@@ -105,12 +105,6 @@ public class MapperInvocationHandler<E> implements InvocationHandler {
 				throw new HelenusException("missing default type for enum user type " + returnType);
 			}
 
-		} else if (returnType.isEnum() && (value.getClass() == Integer.class || value.getClass() == int.class)) {
-		    try {
-                value = Class.forName(returnType.getName()).getEnumConstants()[(Integer) value];
-            } catch (ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException e) {
-		        throw new IllegalArgumentException("invalid ordinal " + value + " for enum type " + returnType.getSimpleName());
-            }
         }
 
 		return value;