diff --git a/java/com/google/gerrit/acceptance/BUILD b/java/com/google/gerrit/acceptance/BUILD
index 135a80e839..b23aca1a61 100644
--- a/java/com/google/gerrit/acceptance/BUILD
+++ b/java/com/google/gerrit/acceptance/BUILD
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 load("@rules_java//java:defs.bzl", "java_binary", "java_library")
-load("//tools/bzl:java.bzl", "java_library2")
 load("//tools/bzl:javadoc.bzl", "java_doc")
 
 FUNCTION_SRCS = [
@@ -103,28 +102,30 @@ java_binary(
     runtime_deps = DEPLOY_ENV,
 )
 
-java_library2(
+exported_deps = [
+    ":function",
+    "//lib:jgit-junit",
+    "//lib:jimfs",
+    "//lib:servlet-api",
+    "//lib/httpcomponents:fluent-hc",
+    "//lib/httpcomponents:httpclient",
+    "//lib/httpcomponents:httpcore",
+    "//lib/mockito",
+    "//lib/truth",
+    "//lib/truth:truth-java8-extension",
+    "//lib/greenmail",
+] + TEST_DEPS
+
+java_library(
     name = "framework-lib",
     testonly = True,
     srcs = glob(
         ["**/*.java"],
         exclude = FUNCTION_SRCS,
     ),
-    exported_deps = [
-        ":function",
-        "//lib:jgit-junit",
-        "//lib:jimfs",
-        "//lib:servlet-api",
-        "//lib/httpcomponents:fluent-hc",
-        "//lib/httpcomponents:httpclient",
-        "//lib/httpcomponents:httpcore",
-        "//lib/mockito",
-        "//lib/truth",
-        "//lib/truth:truth-java8-extension",
-        "//lib/greenmail",
-    ] + TEST_DEPS,
     visibility = ["//visibility:public"],
-    deps = DEPLOY_ENV,
+    exports = exported_deps,
+    deps = DEPLOY_ENV + exported_deps,
 )
 
 java_library(
diff --git a/tools/bzl/java.bzl b/tools/bzl/java.bzl
deleted file mode 100644
index 8996b69360..0000000000
--- a/tools/bzl/java.bzl
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright (C) 2016 The Android Open Source Project
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
-# Syntactic sugar for native java_library() rule:
-#   accept exported_deps attributes
-
-load("@rules_java//java:defs.bzl", "java_library")
-
-def java_library2(deps = [], exported_deps = [], exports = [], **kwargs):
-    if exported_deps:
-        deps = deps + exported_deps
-        exports = exports + exported_deps
-    java_library(
-        deps = deps,
-        exports = exports,
-        **kwargs
-    )