diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 367dd94405..a1a58279d6 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -370,6 +370,7 @@
                 <module>persistence-modules/spring-data-neo4j</module>
                 <module>java-nashorn</module>
                 <module>jeromq</module>
+                <module>spring-ejb-modules/ejb-beans</module>
             </modules>
 
         </profile>
@@ -546,6 +547,7 @@
                 <module>persistence-modules/spring-data-cassandra-reactive</module> <!--JAVA-21844-->
                 <module>persistence-modules/spring-data-neo4j</module>
                 <module>java-nashorn</module>
+                <module>spring-ejb-modules/ejb-beans</module>
             </modules>
 
         </profile>
diff --git a/spring-ejb-modules/pom.xml b/spring-ejb-modules/pom.xml
index 0c9c985782..c5d04dab25 100755
--- a/spring-ejb-modules/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-ejb-modules/pom.xml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
     </parent>
 
     <modules>
-        <module>ejb-beans</module>
+        <!--<module>ejb-beans</module> JAVA-22440 need to upgrade to java 17 -->
         <module>spring-ejb-remote</module>
         <module>spring-ejb-client</module>
         <module>wildfly</module>