diff --git a/.idea/compiler.xml b/.idea/compiler.xml
index c5cdf5038d..7d6d2ebcd2 100644
--- a/.idea/compiler.xml
+++ b/.idea/compiler.xml
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
         <module name="jackson-custom-conversions" />
         <module name="core-java-collections-conversions-2" />
         <module name="jackson-exceptions" />
+        <module name="xstream" />
         <module name="apache-httpclient" />
         <module name="core-java-8" />
         <module name="core-java-collections-3" />
diff --git a/.idea/encodings.xml b/.idea/encodings.xml
index e2602f3cfc..f8feab6f94 100644
--- a/.idea/encodings.xml
+++ b/.idea/encodings.xml
@@ -96,5 +96,7 @@
     <file url="file://$PROJECT_DIR$/xml-2/src/main/resources" charset="UTF-8" />
     <file url="file://$PROJECT_DIR$/xml/src/main/java" charset="UTF-8" />
     <file url="file://$PROJECT_DIR$/xml/src/main/resources" charset="UTF-8" />
+    <file url="file://$PROJECT_DIR$/xstream/src/main/java" charset="UTF-8" />
+    <file url="file://$PROJECT_DIR$/xstream/src/main/resources" charset="UTF-8" />
   </component>
 </project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index d721685dae..e2d58f5205 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@
         <module>toolkits</module>
         <module>xml</module>
         <module>xml-2</module>
+        <module>xstream</module>
     </modules>
 
     <properties>
diff --git a/xstream/pom.xml b/xstream/pom.xml
index 6f25e67e12..8f14d1c833 100644
--- a/xstream/pom.xml
+++ b/xstream/pom.xml
@@ -10,9 +10,9 @@
     <description>An Introduction To XStream</description>
 
     <parent>
-        <groupId>com.baeldung</groupId>
+        <groupId>com.ossez</groupId>
         <artifactId>parent-modules</artifactId>
-        <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>0.0.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
     </parent>
 
     <dependencies>
diff --git a/xstream/src/test/java/com/baeldung/rce/AppUnitTest.java b/xstream/src/test/java/com/baeldung/rce/AppUnitTest.java
index 3b541ae099..19d9b60463 100644
--- a/xstream/src/test/java/com/baeldung/rce/AppUnitTest.java
+++ b/xstream/src/test/java/com/baeldung/rce/AppUnitTest.java
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
 import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
 import java.net.SocketException;
+import java.net.URI;
 import java.net.URL;
 
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
@@ -43,9 +44,9 @@ public final class AppUnitTest {
      * side-effect that is difficult to observe.
      */
     @Test(expected = SocketException.class)
-    public void givenAppIsVulneable_whenExecuteRemoteCodeWhichThrowsException_thenThrowsException() throws IOException {
+    public void givenAppIsVulneable_whenExecuteRemoteCodeWhichThrowsException_thenThrowsException() throws Exception {
         // POST the attack.xml to the application's /persons endpoint
-        final URL url = new URL("http://localhost:" + app.port() + "/persons");
+        final URL url = new URI("http://localhost:" + app.port() + "/persons").toURL();
         final HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
         connection.setRequestMethod("POST");
         connection.setDoOutput(true);