diff --git a/dev-tools/maven/pom.xml.template b/dev-tools/maven/pom.xml.template
index a0e88c2cd28..adf1dcc743c 100644
--- a/dev-tools/maven/pom.xml.template
+++ b/dev-tools/maven/pom.xml.template
@@ -305,11 +305,6 @@
         <artifactId>easymock</artifactId>
         <version>2.2</version>
       </dependency>
-      <dependency>
-        <groupId>org.eclipse.jdt</groupId>
-        <artifactId>core</artifactId>
-        <version>3.1.1</version>
-      </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
         <artifactId>jetty</artifactId>
diff --git a/dev-tools/maven/solr/core/pom.xml.template b/dev-tools/maven/solr/core/pom.xml.template
index 820d10e7a25..70dc490b19f 100644
--- a/dev-tools/maven/solr/core/pom.xml.template
+++ b/dev-tools/maven/solr/core/pom.xml.template
@@ -112,10 +112,6 @@
       <artifactId>lucene-queries</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.eclipse.jdt</groupId>
-      <artifactId>core</artifactId>
-    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>commons-codec</groupId>
       <artifactId>commons-codec</artifactId>
diff --git a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/core/SolrCore.java b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/core/SolrCore.java
index f9aa989d59d..3effc622d01 100644
--- a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/core/SolrCore.java
+++ b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/core/SolrCore.java
@@ -51,7 +51,6 @@ import org.apache.solr.util.plugin.NamedListInitializedPlugin;
 import org.apache.solr.util.plugin.SolrCoreAware;
 import org.apache.solr.util.plugin.PluginInfoInitialized;
 import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
-import org.eclipse.jdt.core.dom.ThisExpression;
 import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
 
 import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;