diff --git a/solr/contrib/dataimporthandler/src/test/org/apache/solr/handler/dataimport/TestScriptTransformer.java b/solr/contrib/dataimporthandler/src/test/org/apache/solr/handler/dataimport/TestScriptTransformer.java
index cd7b11ea8e4..904f2d99cbc 100644
--- a/solr/contrib/dataimporthandler/src/test/org/apache/solr/handler/dataimport/TestScriptTransformer.java
+++ b/solr/contrib/dataimporthandler/src/test/org/apache/solr/handler/dataimport/TestScriptTransformer.java
@@ -53,7 +53,8 @@ public class TestScriptTransformer extends AbstractDataImportHandlerTestCase {
       sep.applyTransformer(map);
       assertEquals(map.get("name"), "Hello Scott");
     } catch (DataImportHandlerException e) {
-      assumeFalse("JRE does not contain a JavaScript engine (OpenJDK)", "<script> can be used only in java 6 or above".equals(e.getMessage()));
+      assumeFalse("JRE does not contain a JavaScript engine (OpenJDK)", 
+                  e.getMessage().startsWith("<script> can be used only in java 6 or above"));      
       throw e;
     }
   }
@@ -85,7 +86,8 @@ public class TestScriptTransformer extends AbstractDataImportHandlerTestCase {
       sep.applyTransformer(map);
       assertEquals(map.get("name"), "Hello Scott");
     } catch (DataImportHandlerException e) {
-      assumeFalse("JRE does not contain a JavaScript engine (OpenJDK)", "<script> can be used only in java 6 or above".equals(e.getMessage()));
+      assumeFalse("JRE does not contain a JavaScript engine (OpenJDK)", 
+                  e.getMessage().startsWith("<script> can be used only in java 6 or above"));      
       throw e;
     }
   }
@@ -101,7 +103,8 @@ public class TestScriptTransformer extends AbstractDataImportHandlerTestCase {
               .item(0));
       assertTrue(config.script.text.indexOf("checkNextToken") > -1);
     } catch (DataImportHandlerException e) {
-      assumeFalse("JRE does not contain a JavaScript engine (OpenJDK)", "<script> can be used only in java 6 or above".equals(e.getMessage()));
+      assumeFalse("JRE does not contain a JavaScript engine (OpenJDK)", 
+                  e.getMessage().startsWith("<script> can be used only in java 6 or above"));      
       throw e;
     }
   }
@@ -129,7 +132,8 @@ public class TestScriptTransformer extends AbstractDataImportHandlerTestCase {
       sep.applyTransformer(map);
       assertNull(map.get("$hasMore"));
     } catch (DataImportHandlerException e) {
-      assumeFalse("JRE does not contain a JavaScript engine (OpenJDK)", "<script> can be used only in java 6 or above".equals(e.getMessage()));
+      assumeFalse("JRE does not contain a JavaScript engine (OpenJDK)", 
+                  e.getMessage().startsWith("<script> can be used only in java 6 or above"));      
       throw e;
     }
   }