diff --git a/nutch/apache-nutch-1.4-bin/runtime/local/bin/nutch b/nutch/apache-nutch-1.4-bin/runtime/local/bin/nutch
index 4f2cece..fb219d8 100755
--- a/nutch/apache-nutch-1.4-bin/runtime/local/bin/nutch
+++ b/nutch/apache-nutch-1.4-bin/runtime/local/bin/nutch
@@ -91,17 +91,6 @@ shift
 THIS_DIR=`dirname "$THIS"`
 NUTCH_HOME=`cd "$THIS_DIR/.." ; pwd`
 
-# some Java parameters
-if [ "$NUTCH_JAVA_HOME" != "" ]; then
-  #echo "run java in $NUTCH_JAVA_HOME"
-  JAVA_HOME=$NUTCH_JAVA_HOME
-fi
-  
-if [ "$JAVA_HOME" = "" ]; then
-  echo "Error: JAVA_HOME is not set."
-  exit 1
-fi
-
 local=true
 
 # NUTCH_JOB 
@@ -117,7 +106,6 @@ if $cygwin; then
   NUTCH_JOB=`cygpath -p -w "$NUTCH_JOB"`
 fi
 
-JAVA=$JAVA_HOME/bin/java
 JAVA_HEAP_MAX=-Xmx1000m 
 
 # check envvars which might override default args
@@ -129,7 +117,6 @@ fi
 
 # CLASSPATH initially contains $NUTCH_CONF_DIR, or defaults to $NUTCH_HOME/conf
 CLASSPATH=${NUTCH_CONF_DIR:=$NUTCH_HOME/conf}
-CLASSPATH=${CLASSPATH}:$JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar
 
 # so that filenames w/ spaces are handled correctly in loops below
 IFS=
@@ -155,7 +142,7 @@ fi
 # used only in local mode 
 JAVA_LIBRARY_PATH=''
 if [ -d "${NUTCH_HOME}/lib/native" ]; then
-  JAVA_PLATFORM=`CLASSPATH=${CLASSPATH} ${JAVA} org.apache.hadoop.util.PlatformName | sed -e 's/ /_/g'`
+  JAVA_PLATFORM=`CLASSPATH=${CLASSPATH} java org.apache.hadoop.util.PlatformName | sed -e 's/ /_/g'`
   
   if [ -d "${NUTCH_HOME}/lib/native" ]; then
     if [ "x$JAVA_LIBRARY_PATH" != "x" ]; then
@@ -255,7 +242,7 @@ fi
 EXEC_CALL="hadoop jar $NUTCH_JOB"
 
 if $local; then
- EXEC_CALL="$JAVA $JAVA_HEAP_MAX $NUTCH_OPTS -classpath $CLASSPATH"
+ EXEC_CALL="java $JAVA_HEAP_MAX $NUTCH_OPTS -classpath $CLASSPATH"
 else
  # check that hadoop can be found on the path
  if [ $(which hadoop | wc -l ) -eq 0 ]; then