diff --git a/org.eclipse.jdt.launching/launching/org/eclipse/jdt/internal/launching/environments/ExecutionEnvironment.java b/org.eclipse.jdt.launching/launching/org/eclipse/jdt/internal/launching/environments/ExecutionEnvironment.java
index 0a34e83..ddac1b8 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jdt.launching/launching/org/eclipse/jdt/internal/launching/environments/ExecutionEnvironment.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jdt.launching/launching/org/eclipse/jdt/internal/launching/environments/ExecutionEnvironment.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*******************************************************************************
- *  Copyright (c) 2005, 2015 IBM Corporation and others.
+ *  Copyright (c) 2005, 2016 IBM Corporation and others.
  *  All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
  *  are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
  *  which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
@@ -455,7 +455,6 @@
 				if (is != null) {
 					Properties profile = new Properties();
 					profile.load(is);
-					fixJavaSE19SourceTargetLevels(profile);
 					return profile;
 				}
 			} catch (IOException e) {
@@ -464,14 +463,6 @@
 		return null;
 	}
 
-	private void fixJavaSE19SourceTargetLevels(Properties profile) {
-		if (!ExecutionEnvironmentAnalyzer.JavaSE_1_9.equals(getId())) {
-			return;
-		}
-		profile.setProperty(JavaCore.COMPILER_SOURCE, JavaCore.VERSION_1_8); // TODO: at the moment, there's no new Java language feature
-		profile.put(JavaCore.COMPILER_CODEGEN_TARGET_PLATFORM, JavaCore.VERSION_1_8); // TODO: at the moment, runtime doesn't support a new class file version
-	}
-
 	/* (non-Javadoc)
 	 * @see org.eclipse.jdt.launching.environments.IExecutionEnvironment#getSubEnvironments()
 	 */
diff --git a/org.eclipse.jdt.launching/launching/org/eclipse/jdt/internal/launching/environments/ExecutionEnvironmentAnalyzer.java b/org.eclipse.jdt.launching/launching/org/eclipse/jdt/internal/launching/environments/ExecutionEnvironmentAnalyzer.java
index 3decaa6..f325cdd 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jdt.launching/launching/org/eclipse/jdt/internal/launching/environments/ExecutionEnvironmentAnalyzer.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jdt.launching/launching/org/eclipse/jdt/internal/launching/environments/ExecutionEnvironmentAnalyzer.java
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
 public class ExecutionEnvironmentAnalyzer implements IExecutionEnvironmentAnalyzerDelegate {
 	
 	// XXX: Note that this string is not yet standardized by OSGi, see http://wiki.osgi.org/wiki/Execution_Environment
-	static final String JavaSE_1_9 = "JavaSE-9"; //$NON-NLS-1$
+	private static final String JavaSE_1_9 = "JavaSE-9"; //$NON-NLS-1$
 	private static final String JavaSE_1_8 = "JavaSE-1.8"; //$NON-NLS-1$
 
 	private static final String JavaSE_1_7 = "JavaSE-1.7"; //$NON-NLS-1$