diff --git a/hbase-shaded/hbase-shaded-client/pom.xml b/hbase-shaded/hbase-shaded-client/pom.xml
index 8b5f699a351..651d5ad1619 100644
--- a/hbase-shaded/hbase-shaded-client/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-shaded/hbase-shaded-client/pom.xml
@@ -54,6 +54,8 @@
                         <configuration>
                             <artifactSet>
                                 <excludes>
+                                    <!-- exclude J2EE modules that come in for JDK11+ (since hadoop-3.2.0) -->
+                                    <exclude>javax.activation:javax.activation-api</exclude>
                                     <!--
                                       Tell the shade plugin that in this case we want to include hadoop
                                       by leaving out the exclude.
diff --git a/hbase-shaded/pom.xml b/hbase-shaded/pom.xml
index cee68740afb..ba3d8f5395c 100644
--- a/hbase-shaded/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-shaded/pom.xml
@@ -132,6 +132,8 @@
                                 <shadeTestJar>false</shadeTestJar>
                                 <artifactSet>
                                     <excludes>
+                                        <!-- exclude J2EE modules that come in for JDK11+ (since hadoop-3.2.0) -->
+                                        <exclude>javax.activation:javax.activation-api</exclude>
                                         <!-- default to excluding Hadoop, have module that want
                                              to include it redefine the exclude list -->
                                         <exclude>org.apache.hadoop:*</exclude>