diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e86d2c5..a45cf43 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -11,14 +11,18 @@
 To use the OpenAPI rules, add the following to your projects `WORKSPACE` file
 
 ```python
-rules_open_api_version = "bc060274349e137c0eb6ccf6f5f06de94551fe00" # update this as needed
+load("@bazel_tools//tools/build_defs/repo:http.bzl", "http_archive")
+
+RULES_OPEN_API_VERSION = "19518c16fa67cb272ffb6055bf90e0f1628ce99b"
+RULES_OPEN_API_SHA256 = "50564187aa01200f9eff01e0fcc541af50b535fd968fe25a4d401e3aa2e8bd87"
+
 http_archive(
     name = "io_bazel_rules_openapi",
-    strip_prefix = "rules_openapi-%s" % rules_open_api_version,
-    type = "zip",
-    url = "https://github.com/meetup/rules_openapi/archive/%s.zip" % rules_open_api_version,
-    sha256 = "78503f072e4ca745854c986a34b478914d5242b4c6cada81069fa15b7309570b"
+    strip_prefix = "rules_openapi-%s" % RULES_OPEN_API_VERSION,
+    url = "https://github.com/meetup/rules_openapi/archive/%s.tar.gz" % RULES_OPEN_API_VERSION,
+    sha256 = RULES_OPEN_API_SHA256
 )
+
 load("@io_bazel_rules_openapi//openapi:openapi.bzl", "openapi_repositories")
 openapi_repositories()
 ```
diff --git a/openapi/openapi.bzl b/openapi/openapi.bzl
index 527e1c6..44009cb 100644
--- a/openapi/openapi.bzl
+++ b/openapi/openapi.bzl
@@ -1,11 +1,17 @@
 """Bazel rules for generating sources and libraries from openapi schemas
 
 """
+
+load("@bazel_tools//tools/build_defs/repo:jvm.bzl", "jvm_maven_import_external")
+
+
 def openapi_repositories(swagger_codegen_cli_version = "2.2.2", swagger_codegen_cli_sha256 = "d4e640503482a423ae97e3f487347c9e08cc0e34d90e360ed7de987cfad24299", prefix = "io_bazel_rules_openapi"):
-    native.maven_jar(
+    jvm_maven_import_external(
         name = prefix + "_io_swagger_swagger_codegen_cli",
         artifact = "io.swagger:swagger-codegen-cli:" + swagger_codegen_cli_version,
-        sha256 = swagger_codegen_cli_sha256,
+        artifact_sha256 = swagger_codegen_cli_sha256,
+        server_urls = ["http://central.maven.org/maven2"],
+        licenses = ["notice"],  # Apache 2.0 License
     )
     native.bind(
         name = prefix + "/dependency/openapi-cli",