diff --git a/src/utils/lombok/permit/Permit.java b/src/utils/lombok/permit/Permit.java
index 9f0434b8..b7c5f0d9 100644
--- a/src/utils/lombok/permit/Permit.java
+++ b/src/utils/lombok/permit/Permit.java
@@ -46,8 +46,7 @@ public class Permit {
 		Throwable ex;
 		
 		try {
-			f = AccessibleObject.class.getDeclaredField("override");
-			g = UNSAFE.objectFieldOffset(f);
+			g = getOverrideFieldOffset();
 			ex = null;
 		} catch (Throwable t) {
 			f = null;
@@ -74,6 +73,30 @@ public class Permit {
 		return accessor;
 	}
 	
+	private static long getOverrideFieldOffset() throws Throwable {
+		Field f = null;
+		Throwable saved = null;
+		try {
+			f = AccessibleObject.class.getDeclaredField("override");
+		} catch (Throwable t) {
+			saved = t;
+		}
+		
+		if (f != null) {
+			return UNSAFE.objectFieldOffset(f);
+		}
+		// The below seems very risky, but for all AccessibleObjects in java today it does work, and starting with JDK12, making the field accessible is no longer possible.
+		try {
+			return UNSAFE.objectFieldOffset(Fake.class.getDeclaredField("override"));
+		} catch (Throwable t) {
+			throw saved;
+		}
+	}
+	
+	static class Fake {
+		boolean override;
+	}
+	
 	public static Method getMethod(Class<?> c, String mName, Class<?>... parameterTypes) throws NoSuchMethodException {
 		Method m = null;
 		Class<?> oc = c;
diff --git a/website/templates/credits.html b/website/templates/credits.html
index 3390d762..b5c033ad 100644
--- a/website/templates/credits.html
+++ b/website/templates/credits.html
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@
 							<strong>Perry Nguyen</strong> (pfn on ##java on freenode) for creating the inspiration for project lombok.
 						</li><li>
 							<strong>Tor Norbye</strong>, <strong>Jan Lahoda</strong>, and <strong>Petr Jiricka</strong> for helping out with Netbeans internals and/or javac.
+						</li><li>
+							<strong>nqzero</strong> for the <a href="https://github.com/nqzero/permit-reflect">permit-reflect</a> library, whose ideas are also used in lombok.
 						</li><li>
 							All contributors who submitted patches or helped answering questions!</li>
 					</ul>