diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/checkstyle/CheckstyleViolationCheckMojo.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/checkstyle/CheckstyleViolationCheckMojo.java
index 43c07a1f..44bcc874 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/checkstyle/CheckstyleViolationCheckMojo.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/checkstyle/CheckstyleViolationCheckMojo.java
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
 import java.io.Reader;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.List;
@@ -854,7 +855,7 @@ else if ( "plain".equals( outputFileFormat ) )
                 {
                     // Write a plain output file to the standard output file,
                     // and write an XML output file to the temp directory that can be used to count violations
-                    outputXmlFile = File.createTempFile( "checkstyle-result", ".xml" );
+                    outputXmlFile = Files.createTempFile( "checkstyle-result", ".xml" ).toFile();
                     outputXmlFile.deleteOnExit();
                     OutputStream xmlOut = getOutputStream( outputXmlFile );
                     CompositeAuditListener compoundListener = new CompositeAuditListener();