diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 17ec55d4c..d139d181f 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -51,8 +51,7 @@ tests of the build scripts. When you change build logic (staging,
 packaging, jar definitions), confirm the change does not alter the
 product: build `server/setup` before and after, and compare the two
 trees. The [oie-build-parity](https://github.com/pacmano1/oie-build-parity)
-tooling does this at the archive-entry level (and can reproduce the
-original byte-identical comparison against the pre-Gradle Ant baseline).
+tooling does this at the archive-entry level.
 Only the changes you intended should appear.
 
 ### Run and debug
diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 83d7e13a6..d35520992 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -179,18 +179,6 @@ subprojects {
         options.encoding = 'UTF-8'
         options.debug = true
     }
-    // Match Ant's javac invocation: -sourcepath defaults to srcdir, and
-    // annotation processors are discovered on the compile classpath
-    // (Gradle would otherwise pass -proc:none, which also changes the
-    // parameter-name metadata javac records for anonymous classes).
-    compileJava {
-        options.sourcepath = sourceSets.main.java.sourceDirectories
-        options.annotationProcessorPath = configurations.compileClasspath
-    }
-    compileTestJava {
-        options.sourcepath = sourceSets.test.java.sourceDirectories
-        options.annotationProcessorPath = configurations.testCompileClasspath
-    }
 
     // Legacy modules assemble their published archives explicitly. 
     // Newer modules use Gradle's normal JAR convention.