diff --git a/jsonschema2pojo-core/src/main/java/org/jsonschema2pojo/rules/FormatRule.java b/jsonschema2pojo-core/src/main/java/org/jsonschema2pojo/rules/FormatRule.java
index abd988ea9..14031d4ee 100644
--- a/jsonschema2pojo-core/src/main/java/org/jsonschema2pojo/rules/FormatRule.java
+++ b/jsonschema2pojo-core/src/main/java/org/jsonschema2pojo/rules/FormatRule.java
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 import java.util.UUID;
 import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.ClassUtils;
 import org.joda.time.DateTime;
 import org.joda.time.LocalDate;
 import org.joda.time.LocalTime;
@@ -165,7 +166,7 @@ private static Class<?> getTimeType(GenerationConfig config) {
     private static Class<?> tryLoadType(String typeName, String format) {
         if (!isEmpty(typeName)) {
             try {
-                Class<?> type = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().loadClass(typeName);
+                Class<?> type = ClassUtils.getClass(Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader(), typeName);
                 return type;
             }
             catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
diff --git a/jsonschema2pojo-integration-tests/src/test/java/org/jsonschema2pojo/integration/config/FormatTypeMappingIT.java b/jsonschema2pojo-integration-tests/src/test/java/org/jsonschema2pojo/integration/config/FormatTypeMappingIT.java
index 44e1dd1f2..766870aa3 100644
--- a/jsonschema2pojo-integration-tests/src/test/java/org/jsonschema2pojo/integration/config/FormatTypeMappingIT.java
+++ b/jsonschema2pojo-integration-tests/src/test/java/org/jsonschema2pojo/integration/config/FormatTypeMappingIT.java
@@ -78,6 +78,17 @@ public void canOverrideNonStandardTypes() throws Exception {
         assertThat(getter.getReturnType(), typeCompatibleWith(URL.class));
     }
 
+    @Test
+    public void canOverrideArrayTypes() throws Exception {
+        ClassLoader resultsClassLoader = schemaRule.generateAndCompile("/schema/format/arrayFormat.json", "com.example",
+                config("formatTypeMapping", mapping("base64", byte[].class)));
+
+        Class generatedType = resultsClassLoader.loadClass("com.example.ArrayFormat");
+
+        Method getter = generatedType.getMethod("getArrayFormat");
+        assertThat(getter.getReturnType(), typeCompatibleWith(byte[].class));
+    }
+
     private static Map<String, String> mapping(Object... keyValues) {
         return config(keyValues)
                 .entrySet()
diff --git a/jsonschema2pojo-integration-tests/src/test/resources/schema/format/arrayFormat.json b/jsonschema2pojo-integration-tests/src/test/resources/schema/format/arrayFormat.json
index 4815194ad..615a1e08b 100644
--- a/jsonschema2pojo-integration-tests/src/test/resources/schema/format/arrayFormat.json
+++ b/jsonschema2pojo-integration-tests/src/test/resources/schema/format/arrayFormat.json
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 {
     "type" : "object",
     "properties" : {
-        "stringAsNonStandard" : {
+        "arrayFormat" : {
             "type" : "string",
-            "format" : "non-standard"
+            "format" : "base64"
         }
     }
 }