diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index f158a7269..2ca10cdde 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -340,6 +340,7 @@ tasks.withType(Checkstyle).configureEach {
         xml.required = false
         html.required = true
     }
+    excludes = [ "**/module-info.java" ]
 }
 
 tasks.register('renderRR') {
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 55c6dfb60..71b6f1299 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -378,9 +378,11 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
-                <version>3.2.3</version>
+                <version>3.2.5</version>
                 <configuration>
                     <trimStackTrace>false</trimStackTrace>
+                    <!-- AlterViewTest does deep reflection -->
+                    <useModulePath>false</useModulePath>
                 </configuration>
             </plugin>
             <plugin>
@@ -555,6 +557,7 @@
                             <logViolationsToConsole>true</logViolationsToConsole>
                             <includeTestSourceDirectory>true</includeTestSourceDirectory>
                             <sourceDirectories>${project.build.sourceDirectory}</sourceDirectories>
+                            <excludes>**/module-info.java</excludes>
                             <checkstyleRules>
                                 <module name="Checker">
                                     <module name="SuppressWarningsFilter" />
diff --git a/src/main/java/module-info.java b/src/main/java/module-info.java
index 7da4f247f..98df959e0 100644
--- a/src/main/java/module-info.java
+++ b/src/main/java/module-info.java
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
  * #L%
  */
 module net.sf.jsqlparser {
+    requires java.sql;
+
     exports net.sf.jsqlparser;
     exports net.sf.jsqlparser.expression;
     exports net.sf.jsqlparser.expression.operators.arithmetic;