diff --git a/pojo/src/main/java/org/jboss/as/pojo/KernelDeploymentModuleProcessor.java b/pojo/src/main/java/org/jboss/as/pojo/KernelDeploymentModuleProcessor.java
index ec1b60002d7b..f12c97c6c2b8 100644
--- a/pojo/src/main/java/org/jboss/as/pojo/KernelDeploymentModuleProcessor.java
+++ b/pojo/src/main/java/org/jboss/as/pojo/KernelDeploymentModuleProcessor.java
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
 import org.jboss.as.server.deployment.module.ModuleDependency;
 import org.jboss.as.server.deployment.module.ModuleSpecification;
 import org.jboss.modules.Module;
-import org.jboss.modules.ModuleIdentifier;
 import org.jboss.modules.ModuleLoader;
 import org.jboss.modules.filter.PathFilter;
 import org.jboss.modules.filter.PathFilters;
@@ -29,7 +28,7 @@
  */
 public class KernelDeploymentModuleProcessor implements DeploymentUnitProcessor {
 
-    private ModuleIdentifier POJO_MODULE = ModuleIdentifier.create("org.jboss.as.pojo");
+    private final String POJO_MODULE = "org.jboss.as.pojo";
 
     /**
      * Add POJO module if we have any bean factories.
diff --git a/pojo/src/main/java/org/jboss/as/pojo/descriptor/ConfigVisitor.java b/pojo/src/main/java/org/jboss/as/pojo/descriptor/ConfigVisitor.java
index e7a5b9c55be8..9077bed2ebaa 100644
--- a/pojo/src/main/java/org/jboss/as/pojo/descriptor/ConfigVisitor.java
+++ b/pojo/src/main/java/org/jboss/as/pojo/descriptor/ConfigVisitor.java
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
 import org.jboss.as.pojo.service.BeanInfo;
 import org.jboss.as.server.deployment.reflect.DeploymentReflectionIndex;
 import org.jboss.modules.Module;
-import org.jboss.modules.ModuleIdentifier;
 import org.jboss.msc.inject.Injector;
 import org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceName;
 
@@ -55,7 +54,7 @@ public interface ConfigVisitor {
      * @param identifier the module identifier
      * @return loaded module
      */
-    Module loadModule(ModuleIdentifier identifier);
+    Module loadModule(String identifier);
 
     /**
      * Get reflection index.
diff --git a/pojo/src/main/java/org/jboss/as/pojo/descriptor/DefaultConfigVisitor.java b/pojo/src/main/java/org/jboss/as/pojo/descriptor/DefaultConfigVisitor.java
index c1a75c3f6800..e5ecfd2ebf4b 100644
--- a/pojo/src/main/java/org/jboss/as/pojo/descriptor/DefaultConfigVisitor.java
+++ b/pojo/src/main/java/org/jboss/as/pojo/descriptor/DefaultConfigVisitor.java
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
 import org.jboss.as.pojo.service.BeanInfo;
 import org.jboss.as.server.deployment.reflect.DeploymentReflectionIndex;
 import org.jboss.modules.Module;
-import org.jboss.modules.ModuleIdentifier;
 import org.jboss.msc.inject.Injector;
 import org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceBuilder;
 import org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceName;
@@ -50,7 +49,7 @@ public Module getModule() {
     }
 
     @Override
-    public Module loadModule(ModuleIdentifier identifier) {
+    public Module loadModule(String identifier) {
         try {
             return module.getModule(identifier);
         } catch (Throwable t) {
diff --git a/pojo/src/main/java/org/jboss/as/pojo/descriptor/KernelDeploymentXmlDescriptorParser.java b/pojo/src/main/java/org/jboss/as/pojo/descriptor/KernelDeploymentXmlDescriptorParser.java
index f1bb02ea4ee2..4f4ba2f20b21 100644
--- a/pojo/src/main/java/org/jboss/as/pojo/descriptor/KernelDeploymentXmlDescriptorParser.java
+++ b/pojo/src/main/java/org/jboss/as/pojo/descriptor/KernelDeploymentXmlDescriptorParser.java
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 import javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamConstants;
 import javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException;
 
+import org.jboss.as.controller.ModuleIdentifierUtil;
 import org.jboss.as.pojo.BeanState;
 import org.jboss.as.pojo.ParseResult;
 import org.jboss.as.pojo.logging.PojoLogger;
@@ -362,7 +363,7 @@ private ModuleConfig parseModuleConfig(final XMLExtendedStreamReader reader) thr
 
             switch (attribute) {
                 case NAME:
-                    moduleConfig.setModuleName(attributeValue);
+                    moduleConfig.setModuleName(ModuleIdentifierUtil.canonicalModuleIdentifier(attributeValue));
                     break;
                 default:
                     throw unexpectedAttribute(reader, i);
diff --git a/pojo/src/main/java/org/jboss/as/pojo/descriptor/ModuleConfig.java b/pojo/src/main/java/org/jboss/as/pojo/descriptor/ModuleConfig.java
index 9adce2026b1f..0e34d3310ba1 100644
--- a/pojo/src/main/java/org/jboss/as/pojo/descriptor/ModuleConfig.java
+++ b/pojo/src/main/java/org/jboss/as/pojo/descriptor/ModuleConfig.java
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ public void visit(ConfigVisitor visitor) {
                 ServiceName serviceName = ServiceModuleLoader.moduleServiceName(identifier);
                 visitor.addDependency(serviceName, getInjectedModule());
             } else {
-                Module dm = visitor.loadModule(identifier);
+                Module dm = visitor.loadModule(moduleName);
                 getInjectedModule().setValue(() -> dm);
             }
         } else {