diff --git a/openjpa-kernel/src/main/java/org/apache/openjpa/enhance/InstrumentationFactory.java b/openjpa-kernel/src/main/java/org/apache/openjpa/enhance/InstrumentationFactory.java
index 6e94635b9..8a828fc47 100644
--- a/openjpa-kernel/src/main/java/org/apache/openjpa/enhance/InstrumentationFactory.java
+++ b/openjpa-kernel/src/main/java/org/apache/openjpa/enhance/InstrumentationFactory.java
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ import java.lang.management.ManagementFactory;
 import java.lang.management.RuntimeMXBean;
 import java.net.URL;
 import java.net.URLClassLoader;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.security.AccessController;
 import java.security.CodeSource;
 import java.security.PrivilegedAction;
@@ -148,7 +149,7 @@ public class InstrumentationFactory {
      */
     private static String createAgentJar() throws IOException {
         File file =
-            File.createTempFile(InstrumentationFactory.class.getName(), ".jar");
+            Files.createTempFile(InstrumentationFactory.class.getName(), ".jar").toFile();
         file.deleteOnExit();
 
         ZipOutputStream zout = new ZipOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(file));
diff --git a/openjpa-persistence-jdbc/src/test/java/org/apache/openjpa/lib/conf/TestAnchorParsing.java b/openjpa-persistence-jdbc/src/test/java/org/apache/openjpa/lib/conf/TestAnchorParsing.java
index 4b6be364b..7f2ca7992 100644
--- a/openjpa-persistence-jdbc/src/test/java/org/apache/openjpa/lib/conf/TestAnchorParsing.java
+++ b/openjpa-persistence-jdbc/src/test/java/org/apache/openjpa/lib/conf/TestAnchorParsing.java
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import java.io.FileOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.MissingResourceException;
 
@@ -142,7 +143,7 @@ public class TestAnchorParsing extends TestCase {
 
     private File resourceToTemporaryFile(String s) throws IOException {
         InputStream in = getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(s);
-        File f = File.createTempFile("TestAnchorParsing", ".xml");
+        File f = Files.createTempFile("TestAnchorParsing", ".xml").toFile();
         OutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(f);
         byte[] bytes = new byte[1024];
         while (true) {