diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/compat/ENV/shared.rb b/Library/Homebrew/compat/ENV/shared.rb
index 200e7b132b..c700b1e00a 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/compat/ENV/shared.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/compat/ENV/shared.rb
@@ -3,4 +3,8 @@ module SharedEnvExtension
     odeprecated "ENV.j1", "ENV.deparallelize"
     deparallelize
   end
+
+  def java_cache
+    # odeprecated "ENV.java_cache"
+  end
 end
diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/extend/ENV/shared.rb b/Library/Homebrew/extend/ENV/shared.rb
index b51ade48b9..15488ee191 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/extend/ENV/shared.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/extend/ENV/shared.rb
@@ -260,10 +260,6 @@ module SharedEnvExtension
     set_cpu_flags(flags)
   end
 
-  def java_cache
-    append "_JAVA_OPTIONS", "-Duser.home=#{HOMEBREW_CACHE}/java_cache"
-  end
-
   # ld64 is a newer linker provided for Xcode 2.5
   # @private
   def ld64