diff --git a/jOOQ-examples/jOOQ-kotlin-example/pom.xml b/jOOQ-examples/jOOQ-kotlin-example/pom.xml
index f9d7820d53..604feb65ba 100644
--- a/jOOQ-examples/jOOQ-kotlin-example/pom.xml
+++ b/jOOQ-examples/jOOQ-kotlin-example/pom.xml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
     <properties>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
-        <kotlin.version>1.0.0-beta-4584</kotlin.version>
+        <kotlin.version>1.0.0-rc-1036</kotlin.version>
         <org.jooq.version>3.8.0-SNAPSHOT</org.jooq.version>
         <org.h2.version>1.4.181</org.h2.version>
         <java.version>1.8</java.version>
diff --git a/jOOQ-examples/jOOQ-kotlin-example/src/main/kotlin/org/jooq/example/kotlin/FunWithKotlinAndJOOQ.kt b/jOOQ-examples/jOOQ-kotlin-example/src/main/kotlin/org/jooq/example/kotlin/FunWithKotlinAndJOOQ.kt
index 9cda3f5112..000902efaf 100644
--- a/jOOQ-examples/jOOQ-kotlin-example/src/main/kotlin/org/jooq/example/kotlin/FunWithKotlinAndJOOQ.kt
+++ b/jOOQ-examples/jOOQ-kotlin-example/src/main/kotlin/org/jooq/example/kotlin/FunWithKotlinAndJOOQ.kt
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ import org.jooq.example.db.h2.Tables.*
 fun main(args: Array<String>) {
 
     val properties = Properties();
-    properties.load(javaClass<Properties>().getResourceAsStream("/config.properties"));
+    properties.load(Properties::class.java.getResourceAsStream("/config.properties"));
 
     DSL.using(
         properties.getProperty("db.url"),