Use JPL as a java module in gradle project calling prolog from java

Help!
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I’m using:
SWI-Prolog (threaded, 64 bits, version 9.2.9)
JPL 7.6.1 (comes with the above SWI-Prolog install)

I want the code to: call prolog from Java project with a module-info.java file. If I do not make the java project modular and drop the module-info.java file, then everything works fine.

My module-info.java looks like this:

module prologtojava {
exports p2j;
requires jpl;
}

But what I’m getting is gradle errors at the compile stage:
error: module not found: jpl
error: package org.jpl7 is not visible

I have
implementation(“jpl:jpl:7.6.1”)
correctly specified in the gradle dependencies

I have also tried
requires jpl7;
or
requires org.jpl7;
but both give ‘module not found’ error.

Is it not possible to use the jpl.jar as an automatic module?
Any insight regarding this would be welcome.