diff --git a/src/checkstyle/checkstyle.xml b/src/checkstyle/checkstyle.xml
index 63ab4d1ae5..7ae6fa6c0a 100644
--- a/src/checkstyle/checkstyle.xml
+++ b/src/checkstyle/checkstyle.xml
@@ -213,6 +213,13 @@
 			<property name="illegalPattern" value="true"/>
 			<property name="message" value="Trailing whitespace"/>
 		</module>
+		<module name="com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.regexp.RegexpSinglelineJavaCheck">
+			<property name="id" value="primitiveClassLiterals"/>
+			<property name="maximum" value="0"/>
+			<property name="format" value="(Boolean|Character|Byte|Short|Integer|Long|Float|Double|Void)\.TYPE"/>
+			<property name="message" value="Please use class literals for primitives and void -- for example, int.class instead of Integer.TYPE."/>
+			<property name="ignoreComments" value="true"/>
+		</module>
 		<module
 			name="com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.regexp.RegexpSinglelineJavaCheck">
 			<property name="maximum" value="0"/>