diff --git a/lib/java/build.xml b/lib/java/build.xml
index 40e5284..db1ce54 100644
--- a/lib/java/build.xml
+++ b/lib/java/build.xml
@@ -17,8 +17,7 @@
  specific language governing permissions and limitations
  under the License.
  -->
-<project name="libthrift" default="dist" basedir="."
-  xmlns:artifact="antlib:org.apache.maven.artifact.ant">
+<project name="libthrift" default="dist" basedir=".">
 
   <description>Thrift Build File</description>
   <property name="thrift.root" location="../../"/>
@@ -67,8 +66,15 @@
   <property name="pom.xml" location="${build.dir}/${final.name}.pom"/>
 
   <path id="compile.classpath">
-    <fileset dir="${build.lib.dir}">
-      <include name="**/*.jar"/>
+    <fileset dir="/usr/share/java">
+      <include name="commons-codec.jar"/>
+      <include name="commons-lang.jar"/>
+      <include name="commons-logging.jar"/>
+      <include name="httpcomponents/httpcore.jar"/>
+      <include name="httpcomponents/httpclient.jar"/>
+      <include name="log4j.jar"/>
+      <include name="slf4j/api.jar"/>
+      <include name="glassfish-servlet-api.jar"/>
     </fileset>
   </path>
 
@@ -78,11 +84,14 @@
     <pathelement location="${build.test.dir}"/>
     <pathelement location="${jar.file}"/>
     <pathelement location="${test.jar.file}"/>
-
+    <fileset dir="/usr/share/java">
+      <include name="junit.jar"/>
+      <include name="slf4j/log4j12.jar"/>
+    </fileset>
   </path>
 
   <!-- Tasks -->
-  <target name="init" depends="setup.init,mvn.init" unless="init.finished">
+  <target name="init" depends="setup.init" unless="init.finished">
     <property name="init.finished" value="true"/>
   </target>
 
@@ -295,120 +304,12 @@
   </target>
 
   <target name="mvn.ant.tasks.download" depends="setup.init,mvn.ant.tasks.check,proxy" unless="mvn.ant.tasks.found">
-    <get src="${mvn.ant.task.url}/${mvn.ant.task.jar}" dest="${build.tools.dir}/${mvn.ant.task.jar}" usetimestamp="true"/>
   </target>
 
   <target name="mvn.ant.tasks.check">
-    <condition property="mvn.ant.tasks.found">
-      <typefound uri="antlib:org.apache.maven.artifact.ant" name="artifact"/>
-    </condition>
   </target>
 
-  <target name="mvn.init" depends="mvn.ant.tasks.download" unless="mvn.finished">
-    <!-- Download mvn ant tasks, download dependencies, and setup pom file -->
-    <typedef uri="antlib:org.apache.maven.artifact.ant" classpath="${build.tools.dir}/${mvn.ant.task.jar}"/>
-
-    <!-- remote repositories used to download dependencies from -->
-    <artifact:remoteRepository id="central" url="${mvn.repo}"/>
-    <artifact:remoteRepository id="apache" url="${apache.repo}"/>
-
-    <!-- Pom file information -->
-    <artifact:pom id="pom"
-      groupId="${thrift.groupid}"
-      artifactId="${thrift.artifactid}"
-      version="${version}"
-      url="http://thrift.apache.org"
-      name="Apache Thrift"
-      description="Thrift is a software framework for scalable cross-language services development."
-      packaging="pom"
-    >
-      <remoteRepository refid="central"/>
-      <remoteRepository refid="apache"/>
-      <license name="The Apache Software License, Version 2.0" url="${license}"/>
-      <scm connection="scm:git:https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/thrift.git"
-      developerConnection="scm:git:https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/thrift.git"
-      url="https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=thrift.git"
-      />
-      <!-- Thrift Developers -->
-      <developer id="mcslee" name="Mark Slee"/>
-      <developer id="dreiss" name="David Reiss"/>
-      <developer id="aditya" name="Aditya Agarwal"/>
-      <developer id="marck" name="Marc Kwiatkowski"/>
-      <developer id="jwang" name="James Wang"/>
-      <developer id="cpiro" name="Chris Piro"/>
-      <developer id="bmaurer" name="Ben Maurer"/>
-      <developer id="kclark" name="Kevin Clark"/>
-      <developer id="jake" name="Jake Luciani"/>
-      <developer id="bryanduxbury" name="Bryan Duxbury"/>
-      <developer id="esteve" name="Esteve Fernandez"/>
-      <developer id="todd" name="Todd Lipcon"/>
-      <developer id="geechorama" name="Andrew McGeachie"/>
-      <developer id="molinaro" name="Anthony Molinaro"/>
-      <developer id="roger" name="Roger Meier"/>
-      <developer id="jfarrell" name="Jake Farrell"/>
-      <developer id="jensg" name="Jens Geyer"/>
-      <developer id="carl" name="Carl Yeksigian"/>
-
-      <!-- Thrift dependencies list -->
-      <dependency groupId="org.slf4j" artifactId="slf4j-api" version="${slf4j.version}"/>
-      <dependency groupId="javax.servlet" artifactId="servlet-api" version="${servlet.version}" scope="provided"/>
-      <dependency groupId="org.apache.httpcomponents" artifactId="httpclient" version="${httpclient.version}"/>
-      <dependency groupId="org.apache.httpcomponents" artifactId="httpcore" version="${httpcore.version}"/>
-    </artifact:pom>
-
-    <!-- Generate the pom file -->
-    <artifact:writepom pomRefId="pom" file="${pom.xml}"/>
-
-    <!-- Download the dependencies -->
-    <artifact:dependencies filesetId="build-dependency-jars" pomRefId="pom"/>
-
-    <!-- Copy the dependencies to the build/lib dir -->
-    <copy todir="${build.dir}/lib">
-      <fileset refid="build-dependency-jars"/>
-      <mapper type="flatten"/>
-    </copy>
-
-    <!-- Dependencies needed for testing -->
-    <artifact:dependencies filesetId="test-dependency-jars" useScope="runtime">
-      <dependency groupId="org.slf4j" artifactId="slf4j-log4j12" version="${slf4j.version}"/>
-      <dependency groupId="junit" artifactId="junit" version="4.4"/>
-    </artifact:dependencies>
-
-    <!-- Copy the test dependencies to the build/lib dir -->
-    <copy todir="${build.dir}/lib">
-      <fileset refid="test-dependency-jars"/>
-      <mapper type="flatten"/>
-    </copy>
-
-    <property name="mvn.finished" value="true"/>
+  <target name="mvn.init" unless="mvn.finished">
   </target>
 
-  <macrodef name="signAndDeploy">
-    <!-- Sign and deploy jars to apache repo -->
-    <attribute name="file"/>
-    <attribute name="classifier" default=""/>
-    <attribute name="packaging" default="jar"/>
-    <attribute name="pom" default=""/>
-    <sequential>
-      <artifact:mvn fork="true">
-        <arg value="org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-gpg-plugin:1.6:sign-and-deploy-file"/>
-        <arg value="-DrepositoryId=${maven-repository-id}"/>
-        <arg value="-Durl=${maven-repository-url}"/>
-        <arg value="-DpomFile=@{pom}"/>
-        <arg value="-Dfile=@{file}"/>
-        <arg value="-Dclassifier=@{classifier}"/>
-        <arg value="-Dpackaging=@{packaging}"/>
-        <arg value="-Pgpg"/>
-      </artifact:mvn>
-    </sequential>
-  </macrodef>
-
-  <target name="publish" depends="clean,init,test,dist,javadoc,pack.src">
-    <!-- Compile, package, test and then send release to apache maven repo -->
-    <!-- run with: ant -Drelease=true publish-->
-    <signAndDeploy file="${pom.xml}" packaging="pom" classifier="" pom="${pom.xml}"/>
-    <signAndDeploy file="${jar.file}" classifier="" pom="${pom.xml}"/>
-    <signAndDeploy file="${javadoc.jar.file}" classifier="javadoc" pom="${pom.xml}"/>
-    <signAndDeploy file="${source.jar.file}" classifier="sources" pom="${pom.xml}"/>
-  </target>
 </project>
diff --git a/tutorial/java/build.xml b/tutorial/java/build.xml
index 7638d5b..c5ca703 100644
--- a/tutorial/java/build.xml
+++ b/tutorial/java/build.xml
@@ -29,13 +29,33 @@
       <include name="*.jar" />
       <exclude name="-test.jar" />
     </fileset>
-    <fileset dir="../../lib/java/build/lib">
-      <include name="*.jar" />
+    <fileset dir="/usr/share/java">
+      <include name="commons-codec.jar"/>
+      <include name="commons-lang.jar"/>
+      <include name="commons-logging.jar"/>
+      <include name="httpcomponents/httpcore.jar"/>
+      <include name="httpcomponents/httpclient.jar"/>
+      <include name="log4j.jar"/>
+      <include name="slf4j/api.jar"/>
+      <include name="glassfish-servlet-api.jar"/>
     </fileset>
   </path>
   <path id="build.classpath">
-    <path refid="libs.classpath" />
     <pathelement path="${gen}" />
+    <fileset dir="../../lib/java/build">
+      <include name="*.jar" />
+      <exclude name="-test.jar" />
+    </fileset>
+    <fileset dir="/usr/share/java">
+      <include name="commons-codec.jar"/>
+      <include name="commons-lang.jar"/>
+      <include name="commons-logging.jar"/>
+      <include name="httpcomponents/httpcore.jar"/>
+      <include name="httpcomponents/httpclient.jar"/>
+      <include name="log4j.jar"/>
+      <include name="slf4j/api.jar"/>
+      <include name="glassfish-servlet-api.jar"/>
+    </fileset>
   </path>
   <path id="tutorial.classpath">
     <path refid="build.classpath" />
diff --git a/tutorial/js/build.xml b/tutorial/js/build.xml
index a9a9ad4..2fddf0c 100644
--- a/tutorial/js/build.xml
+++ b/tutorial/js/build.xml
@@ -35,8 +35,16 @@
       <include name="*.jar" />
       <exclude name="-test.jar" />
     </fileset>
-    <fileset dir="../../lib/java/build/lib">
-      <include name="*.jar" />
+
+    <fileset dir="/usr/share/java">
+      <include name="commons-codec.jar"/>
+      <include name="commons-lang.jar"/>
+      <include name="commons-logging.jar"/>
+      <include name="httpcomponents/httpcore.jar"/>
+      <include name="httpcomponents/httpclient.jar"/>
+      <include name="log4j.jar"/>
+      <include name="slf4j/api.jar"/>
+      <include name="glassfish-servlet-api.jar"/>
     </fileset>
   </path>
   <path id="build.classpath">
