diff --git a/java/c/pom.xml b/java/c/pom.xml
index 52962354047b1..fe57bd2ea0ec5 100644
--- a/java/c/pom.xml
+++ b/java/c/pom.xml
@@ -91,5 +91,16 @@ under the License.
         </includes>
       </resource>
     </resources>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+        <configuration combine.children="append">
+          <compilerArgs>
+            <arg>-Werror</arg>
+          </compilerArgs>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
+    </plugins>
   </build>
 </project>
diff --git a/java/c/src/main/java/org/apache/arrow/c/ArrayExporter.java b/java/c/src/main/java/org/apache/arrow/c/ArrayExporter.java
index 820a1522749c6..0c6b5de4486bc 100644
--- a/java/c/src/main/java/org/apache/arrow/c/ArrayExporter.java
+++ b/java/c/src/main/java/org/apache/arrow/c/ArrayExporter.java
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ void export(ArrowArray array, FieldVector vector, DictionaryProvider dictionaryP
 
       data.buffers = new ArrayList<>(vector.getExportedCDataBufferCount());
       data.buffers_ptrs =
-          allocator.buffer((long) (vector.getExportedCDataBufferCount()) * Long.BYTES);
+          allocator.buffer((long) vector.getExportedCDataBufferCount() * Long.BYTES);
       vector.exportCDataBuffers(data.buffers, data.buffers_ptrs, NULL);
 
       if (dictionaryEncoding != null) {
diff --git a/java/c/src/main/java/org/apache/arrow/c/BufferImportTypeVisitor.java b/java/c/src/main/java/org/apache/arrow/c/BufferImportTypeVisitor.java
index 93fef6d7ca801..e47d27bf091ee 100644
--- a/java/c/src/main/java/org/apache/arrow/c/BufferImportTypeVisitor.java
+++ b/java/c/src/main/java/org/apache/arrow/c/BufferImportTypeVisitor.java
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ public List<ArrowBuf> visit(ArrowType.Utf8 type) {
   private List<ArrowBuf> visitVariableWidthView(ArrowType type) {
     final int viewBufferIndex = 1;
     final int variadicSizeBufferIndex = this.buffers.length - 1;
-    final long numOfVariadicBuffers = this.buffers.length - 3;
+    final long numOfVariadicBuffers = this.buffers.length - 3L;
     final long variadicSizeBufferCapacity = numOfVariadicBuffers * Long.BYTES;
     List<ArrowBuf> buffers = new ArrayList<>();
 
diff --git a/java/c/src/test/java/org/apache/arrow/c/DictionaryTest.java b/java/c/src/test/java/org/apache/arrow/c/DictionaryTest.java
index ce0e82586b766..8cd4913f22dd2 100644
--- a/java/c/src/test/java/org/apache/arrow/c/DictionaryTest.java
+++ b/java/c/src/test/java/org/apache/arrow/c/DictionaryTest.java
@@ -247,8 +247,8 @@ private void createStructVector(StructVector vector) {
 
     // Write the values to child 1
     child1.allocateNew();
-    child1.set(0, "01234567890".getBytes());
-    child1.set(1, "012345678901234567".getBytes());
+    child1.set(0, "01234567890".getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
+    child1.set(1, "012345678901234567".getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
     vector.setIndexDefined(0);
 
     // Write the values to child 2
@@ -269,8 +269,8 @@ private void createStructVectorInline(StructVector vector) {
 
     // Write the values to child 1
     child1.allocateNew();
-    child1.set(0, "012345678".getBytes());
-    child1.set(1, "01234".getBytes());
+    child1.set(0, "012345678".getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
+    child1.set(1, "01234".getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
     vector.setIndexDefined(0);
 
     // Write the values to child 2
diff --git a/java/c/src/test/java/org/apache/arrow/c/RoundtripTest.java b/java/c/src/test/java/org/apache/arrow/c/RoundtripTest.java
index 18b2e94adde47..d8286465e475f 100644
--- a/java/c/src/test/java/org/apache/arrow/c/RoundtripTest.java
+++ b/java/c/src/test/java/org/apache/arrow/c/RoundtripTest.java
@@ -528,14 +528,6 @@ public void testVarBinaryVector() {
     }
   }
 
-  private String generateString(String str, int repetition) {
-    StringBuilder aRepeated = new StringBuilder();
-    for (int i = 0; i < repetition; i++) {
-      aRepeated.append(str);
-    }
-    return aRepeated.toString();
-  }
-
   @Test
   public void testViewVector() {
     // ViewVarCharVector with short strings