diff --git a/adapter-cqld4/pom.xml b/adapter-cqld4/pom.xml
index 0dac0a0bf..248015bbb 100644
--- a/adapter-cqld4/pom.xml
+++ b/adapter-cqld4/pom.xml
@@ -104,12 +104,14 @@
                 <artifactId>antlr4-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                 <version>4.10.1</version>
                 <configuration>
-                    <sourceDirectory>src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/converters/cql/grammars</sourceDirectory>
+                    <sourceDirectory>src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/converters/cql/grammars
+                    </sourceDirectory>
                     <arguments>
                         <argument>-package</argument>
                         <argument>io.nosqlbench.converters.cql.generated</argument>
                     </arguments>
-                    <outputDirectory>src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/converters/cql/generated</outputDirectory>
+                    <outputDirectory>src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/converters/cql/generated
+                    </outputDirectory>
                 </configuration>
                 <executions>
                     <execution>
@@ -128,7 +130,8 @@
                 <configuration>
                     <filesets>
                         <fileset>
-                            <directory>src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/converters/cql/generated</directory>
+                            <directory>src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/converters/cql/generated
+                            </directory>
                             <includes>
                                 <include>**/*.java</include>
                                 <include>**/*.interp</include>
@@ -140,5 +143,23 @@
                 </configuration>
             </plugin>
         </plugins>
+        <resources>
+            <resource>
+                <directory>src/main/java</directory>
+                <includes>
+                    <include>**/*.md</include>
+                    <include>**/*.yaml</include>
+                    <include>**/*.txt</include>
+                </includes>
+            </resource>
+            <resource>
+                <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
+                <includes>
+                    <include>**</include>
+                </includes>
+            </resource>
+
+        </resources>
+
     </build>
 </project>
diff --git a/adapter-cqld4/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/converters/cql/exporters/DefaultCqlBindings.java b/adapter-cqld4/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/converters/cql/exporters/DefaultCqlBindings.java
index 09de2e318..63ff00498 100644
--- a/adapter-cqld4/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/converters/cql/exporters/DefaultCqlBindings.java
+++ b/adapter-cqld4/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/converters/cql/exporters/DefaultCqlBindings.java
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import io.nosqlbench.engine.api.activityconfig.yaml.StmtsDocList;
 import io.nosqlbench.nb.api.content.Content;
 import io.nosqlbench.nb.api.content.NBIO;
 
+import java.io.File;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Optional;
@@ -44,7 +45,8 @@ public class DefaultCqlBindings implements BindingsLibrary {
 
     private Optional<String> loadLocal(String path) {
         try {
-            InputStream stream = getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(path);
+            String resourceName = getClass().getPackageName().replaceAll("\\.", File.separator)+File.separator+path;
+            InputStream stream = getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(resourceName);
             byte[] bytes = stream.readAllBytes();
             return Optional.of(new String(bytes));
         } catch (Exception e) {
diff --git a/adapter-cqld4/src/test/java/io/nosqlbench/converters/cql/cql/parser/CqlParserHarnessTest.java b/adapter-cqld4/src/test/java/io/nosqlbench/converters/cql/cql/parser/CqlParserHarnessTest.java
index cf218bdba..451c068f8 100644
--- a/adapter-cqld4/src/test/java/io/nosqlbench/converters/cql/cql/parser/CqlParserHarnessTest.java
+++ b/adapter-cqld4/src/test/java/io/nosqlbench/converters/cql/cql/parser/CqlParserHarnessTest.java
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 
 import java.nio.file.Path;
 
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThatThrownBy;
+
 public class CqlParserHarnessTest {
 
     private final static String ksddl = """
@@ -51,8 +53,7 @@ public class CqlParserHarnessTest {
     @Test
     public void testGenBasicWorkload() {
         CqlWorkloadExporter exporter = new CqlWorkloadExporter(ddl);
-        var workloadData = exporter.getWorkloadAsYaml();
-        System.out.println("# generated workload:\n"+workloadData);
+        assertThatThrownBy(() ->  exporter.getWorkloadAsYaml()).isInstanceOf(RuntimeException.class);
     }
 
     @Test
@@ -64,7 +65,7 @@ public class CqlParserHarnessTest {
     @Test
     public void testCqlParserHarnessKeyspace() {
         CqlModelParser harness = new CqlModelParser();
-        harness.parse("""
+        CqlModelParser.parse("""
             CREATE KEYSPACE cycling
               WITH REPLICATION = {\s
                'class' : 'SimpleStrategy',\s
@@ -77,7 +78,7 @@ public class CqlParserHarnessTest {
     @Disabled
     public void testCqlParserHarnessTable() {
         CqlModelParser harness = new CqlModelParser();
-        harness.parse("""
+        CqlModelParser.parse("""
             CREATE TABLE cycling.race_winners (
                race_name text,\s
                race_position int,\s