diff --git a/dev-java/javax-inject/javax-inject-1-r4.ebuild b/dev-java/javax-inject/javax-inject-1-r4.ebuild
index 44283325ca8a5..e211c0f48a5ee 100644
--- a/dev-java/javax-inject/javax-inject-1-r4.ebuild
+++ b/dev-java/javax-inject/javax-inject-1-r4.ebuild
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 EAPI=8
 
 JAVA_PKG_IUSE="doc source"
+MAVEN_ID="javax.inject:javax.inject:1"
 
 inherit java-pkg-2 java-pkg-simple