diff --git a/streampipes-client/pom.xml b/streampipes-client/pom.xml
index f24e663780..25c96b1a12 100644
--- a/streampipes-client/pom.xml
+++ b/streampipes-client/pom.xml
@@ -97,8 +97,13 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
+                <configuration>
+                    <propertyExpansion>
+                		checkstyle.config.base.path=${project.parent.basedir}/tools/maven
+                	</propertyExpansion>
+                </configuration>
             </plugin>
         </plugins>
     </build>
 
-</project>
+</project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/streampipes-rest-extensions/pom.xml b/streampipes-rest-extensions/pom.xml
index d95d3e45de..192260917d 100644
--- a/streampipes-rest-extensions/pom.xml
+++ b/streampipes-rest-extensions/pom.xml
@@ -75,4 +75,4 @@
         </plugins>
     </build>
 
-</project>
+</project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/streampipes-rest-shared/pom.xml b/streampipes-rest-shared/pom.xml
index de74e640dc..e94975373e 100644
--- a/streampipes-rest-shared/pom.xml
+++ b/streampipes-rest-shared/pom.xml
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@
   ~
   -->
 
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
     <parent>
         <artifactId>streampipes-parent</artifactId>
         <groupId>org.apache.streampipes</groupId>
diff --git a/streampipes-rest/pom.xml b/streampipes-rest/pom.xml
index 64eb418d7c..94bcca3803 100644
--- a/streampipes-rest/pom.xml
+++ b/streampipes-rest/pom.xml
@@ -159,7 +159,12 @@
             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
+                <configuration>
+                    <propertyExpansion>
+                        checkstyle.config.base.path=${project.parent.basedir}/tools/maven
+                    </propertyExpansion>
+                </configuration>
             </plugin>
         </plugins>
     </build>
-</project>
+</project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tools/maven/checkstyle.xml b/tools/maven/checkstyle.xml
index 83861dbe07..a86ef413dc 100644
--- a/tools/maven/checkstyle.xml
+++ b/tools/maven/checkstyle.xml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ page at http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/config.html -->
     <property name="severity" value="error"/>
 
     <module name="Header">
-        <property name="headerFile" value="tools/maven/checkstyle-header.txt"/>
+        <property name="headerFile" value="${checkstyle.config.base.path}/checkstyle-header.txt" default="tools/maven/checkstyle-header.txt"/>
         <property name="fileExtensions" value="java"/>
     </module>