diff --git a/ide/bin/launcher.sh b/ide/bin/launcher.sh
index da23d23..55c8e91 100644
--- a/ide/bin/launcher.sh
+++ b/ide/bin/launcher.sh
@@ -925,18 +925,6 @@ GetDefaultJDK()
   #
   if [ -f "$tmpvar" ]
   then
-    while [ -h "$tmpvar" ]
-    do
-        EchoIfVerbose "Found symlinked JDK, following symlink: $tmpvar"
-        tmpvar2=`ls -ls "$tmpvar"`
-        tmpvar2=`expr "$tmpvar2" : '.*-> \(.*\)$'`
-        if [ `expr "$tmpvar2" : "\.\/"` -gt 0 -o `expr "$tmpvar2" : "\.\.\/"` -gt 0 -o `expr "$tmpvar2" : ".*/.*"` -le 0 ]
-        then
-          tmpvar="`dirname "$tmpvar"`/$tmpvar2"
-        else
-          tmpvar="$tmpvar2"
-        fi
-    done
     tmpvar=`expr "$tmpvar" : '\(.*\)\/bin\/[^\/]*$'`
     SetJavaHome "$tmpvar"
     EchoIfVerbose "Found existing default JDK $tmpvar"
