diff --git a/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/jboss/jboss-modules-1.3/build.gradle b/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/jboss/jboss-modules-1.3/build.gradle
index 8f45fb9e3e2..29cf37f8139 100644
--- a/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/jboss/jboss-modules-1.3/build.gradle
+++ b/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/jboss/jboss-modules-1.3/build.gradle
@@ -8,6 +8,16 @@ muzzle {
 
 apply from: "$rootDir/gradle/java.gradle"
 
+addTestSuite("latestDepTest")
+
 dependencies {
   compileOnly group: 'org.jboss.modules', name: 'jboss-modules', version: '1.3.0.Final'
+  testImplementation group: 'org.jboss.modules', name: 'jboss-modules', version: '1.3.0.Final'
+  latestDepTestImplementation group: 'org.jboss.modules', name: 'jboss-modules', version: '+'
+}
+
+tasks.withType(Test).configureEach {
+  if (it.javaVersion.isJava9Compatible()) {
+    jvmArgs +='--add-exports=java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp=ALL-UNNAMED'
+  }
 }
diff --git a/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/jboss/jboss-modules-1.3/src/latestDepTest/groovy/ModuleNameExtractionTest.groovy b/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/jboss/jboss-modules-1.3/src/latestDepTest/groovy/ModuleNameExtractionTest.groovy
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3517035e9de
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/jboss/jboss-modules-1.3/src/latestDepTest/groovy/ModuleNameExtractionTest.groovy
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+import datadog.trace.agent.test.InstrumentationSpecification
+import datadog.trace.instrumentation.jbossmodules.ModuleNameHelper
+import org.jboss.modules.DependencySpec
+import org.jboss.modules.Module
+import org.jboss.modules.ModuleSpec
+
+class ModuleNameExtractionTest extends InstrumentationSpecification {
+  def "should be able to extract a module name"() {
+    given:
+
+    ModuleSpec spec = ModuleSpec.build("dummy")
+      .addDependency(DependencySpec.createLocalDependencySpec())
+      .create()
+
+    Module module = new Module(spec, Module.getBootModuleLoader())
+
+    expect:
+    module != null
+    module.getName() == ModuleNameHelper.extractModuleName(module)
+  }
+}
diff --git a/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/jboss/jboss-modules-1.3/src/main/java/datadog/trace/instrumentation/jbossmodules/ModuleNameHelper.java b/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/jboss/jboss-modules-1.3/src/main/java/datadog/trace/instrumentation/jbossmodules/ModuleNameHelper.java
index d99f2ded925..bc971a48767 100644
--- a/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/jboss/jboss-modules-1.3/src/main/java/datadog/trace/instrumentation/jbossmodules/ModuleNameHelper.java
+++ b/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/jboss/jboss-modules-1.3/src/main/java/datadog/trace/instrumentation/jbossmodules/ModuleNameHelper.java
@@ -1,19 +1,77 @@
 package datadog.trace.instrumentation.jbossmodules;
 
+import datadog.trace.util.MethodHandles;
+import java.lang.invoke.MethodHandle;
 import java.util.regex.Matcher;
 import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 import javax.annotation.Nonnull;
+import org.jboss.modules.Module;
 import org.jboss.modules.ModuleClassLoader;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
 public class ModuleNameHelper {
   private ModuleNameHelper() {}
 
+  private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ModuleNameHelper.class);
+  private static final MethodHandle MODULE_NAME_GETTER = resolveModuleNameGetter();
+
+  private static MethodHandle resolveModuleNameGetter() {
+    final ClassLoader classLoader = ModuleClassLoader.class.getClassLoader();
+    final MethodHandles methodHandles = new MethodHandles(classLoader);
+    MethodHandle ret = null;
+    MethodHandle getModuleIdentifierHandle = null;
+    try {
+      // before 2.2
+      getModuleIdentifierHandle = methodHandles.method(Module.class, "getIdentifier");
+      if (getModuleIdentifierHandle != null) {
+        // chains the two method handle calls
+        ret =
+            java.lang.invoke.MethodHandles.filterReturnValue(
+                getModuleIdentifierHandle,
+                methodHandles.method(
+                    Class.forName("org.jboss.modules.ModuleIdentifier", false, classLoader),
+                    "getName"));
+      }
+    } catch (Throwable ignored) {
+      // here for caution. It's already caught and logged on MethodHandles
+    }
+    if (ret == null) {
+      // 2.2 onward
+      try {
+        ret = methodHandles.method(Module.class, "getName");
+      } catch (Throwable ignored) {
+      }
+    }
+    if (ret == null) {
+      LOGGER.debug(
+          "Unable to resolve a method to establish jboss module name. If enabled, jee-split-by-deployment will not work properly");
+    }
+    return ret;
+  }
+
   private static final Pattern SUBDEPLOYMENT_MATCH =
       Pattern.compile("deployment(?>.+\\.ear)?\\.(.+)\\.[j|w]ar");
 
+  static String extractModuleName(Module module) {
+    if (MODULE_NAME_GETTER == null) {
+      return null;
+    }
+    String moduleName = null;
+    try {
+      moduleName = (String) MODULE_NAME_GETTER.invoke(module);
+    } catch (Throwable ignored) {
+    }
+    return moduleName;
+  }
+
   public static String extractDeploymentName(@Nonnull final ModuleClassLoader classLoader) {
-    final Matcher matcher =
-        SUBDEPLOYMENT_MATCH.matcher(classLoader.getModule().getIdentifier().getName());
+
+    final String moduleName = extractModuleName(classLoader.getModule());
+    if (moduleName == null) {
+      return null;
+    }
+    final Matcher matcher = SUBDEPLOYMENT_MATCH.matcher(moduleName);
     if (matcher.matches()) {
       return matcher.group(1);
     }
diff --git a/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/jboss/jboss-modules-1.3/src/test/groovy/ModuleNameExtractionTest.groovy b/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/jboss/jboss-modules-1.3/src/test/groovy/ModuleNameExtractionTest.groovy
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7d38222f27f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/jboss/jboss-modules-1.3/src/test/groovy/ModuleNameExtractionTest.groovy
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+import datadog.trace.agent.test.InstrumentationSpecification
+import datadog.trace.instrumentation.jbossmodules.ModuleNameHelper
+import org.jboss.modules.DependencySpec
+import org.jboss.modules.Module
+import org.jboss.modules.ModuleIdentifier
+import org.jboss.modules.ModuleSpec
+
+class ModuleNameExtractionTest extends InstrumentationSpecification {
+  def "should be able to extract a module name"() {
+    given:
+    ModuleIdentifier id = ModuleIdentifier.fromString("dummy")
+
+    ModuleSpec spec = ModuleSpec.build(id)
+      .addDependency(DependencySpec.createLocalDependencySpec())
+      .create()
+
+    Module module = new Module(spec, Module.getBootModuleLoader())
+
+    expect:
+    module != null
+    module.getIdentifier().getName() == ModuleNameHelper.extractModuleName(module)
+  }
+}