diff --git a/bin/runjava b/bin/runjava
index c94991845..78273e90d 100755
--- a/bin/runjava
+++ b/bin/runjava
@@ -12,28 +12,6 @@ chomp($location = `dirname $0`);
 pop(@parts);
 my $root = join("/", @parts);
 
-my $jhome = $ENV{"JAVA_HOME"};
-
-# make sure JAVA_HOME is set
-if (!defined $jhome) {
-    warn "$0: Error: No JAVA_HOME specified!\n";
-    warn "\n";
-    warn "You must set your JAVA_HOME environment variable to the\n";
-    warn "the absolute path of your JDK installation. For example:\n";
-    warn "\n";
-    warn " % JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/jdk1.2\n";
-    warn " % export JAVA_HOME\n";
-    die "\n";
-}
-
-# make sure it's set to a directory
-if (! -d $jhome) {
-    die "$0: Can't find a java interpreter in '$jhome'.\n";
-}
-
-my $java = "$jhome/bin/java";
-my $jlib = "$jhome/lib/classes.zip";
-
 # determine our machine architecture
 my $ostype = `uname -s`;
 my $machtype = `uname -m`;
@@ -67,7 +45,7 @@ foreach $dir (@dirs) {
 }
 
 # finally add the standard classes
-$classpath = "$classpath:$jlib";
+$classpath = "$classpath";
 
 # specify our resource root (the resource manager needs this)
 my $rootarg = "-Dresource_dir=$root/tests/rsrc";
@@ -102,6 +80,6 @@ for ($i = 0; $i < @ARGV; $i++) {
 # log the pid file if requested to do so
 print `echo $$ > $pid_file` if (defined $pid_file);
 
-my $cmd = "$java -mx256M $classpath $rootarg " . join(" ", @ARGV);
+my $cmd = "java -mx256M $classpath $rootarg " . join(" ", @ARGV);
 # print "$cmd\n";
 exec($cmd);