diff --git a/production/testScripts/configuration/sdk.tests/testScripts/test.xml b/production/testScripts/configuration/sdk.tests/testScripts/test.xml
index 20319c612a7..679785b7379 100644
--- a/production/testScripts/configuration/sdk.tests/testScripts/test.xml
+++ b/production/testScripts/configuration/sdk.tests/testScripts/test.xml
@@ -2185,67 +2185,4 @@
     <markTime msg="${message}" />
   </target>
 
-
-  <!--
-    function to centralize how we get (that is, set) the value of
-    'javaMajorVersion'. (expected to be integer, such as 5,6,7,8,9,
-    or will be "0" if the version could not be determined, for some reason.
-  -->
-
-  <target name="getJavaMajorVersion">
-    <!--
-      Since we don't support below java 11 we can safely ignore version numbers for java 8 and below
-    -->
-
-  	<loadresource property="javaMajorVersion">
-      <string value="${java.version}"/>
-      <filterchain>
-        <tokenfilter>
-          <replaceregex pattern="^(\d+)([\.-](.*))" replace="\1"/>
-        </tokenfilter>
-      </filterchain>
-    </loadresource>
-    <echo message="javaMajorVersion: ${javaMajorVersion}"/>
-
-  </target>
-
-  <macrodef name="printProperty">
-    <attribute name="property" />
-    <sequential>
-      <echo message="@{property}: ${@{property}}" />
-    </sequential>
-  </macrodef>
-
-
-  <target name="debug-allJavaProperties">
-    <echoproperties regex="^java\..*$" />
-  </target>
-  <target name="debug-allOSProperties">
-    <echoproperties regex="^os\..*$" />
-  </target>
-
-  <target
-    name="test-getJavaMajorVersion"
-    depends="debug-allJavaProperties,debug-allOSProperties,getJavaMajorVersion">
-    <printProperty property="javaMajorVersion" />
-    <printProperty property="java.version" />
-    <printProperty property="java.runtime.version" />
-    <printProperty property="java.vm.info" />
-    <printProperty property="java.specification.version" />
-    <printProperty property="java.vendor" />
-    <printProperty property="ant.version" />
-    <printProperty property="ant.java.version" />
-    <!-- <antcall target="printMainProperties" /> -->
-  </target>
-
-  <target
-    name="test-all"
-    depends="init,debug-allProperties,test-getJavaMajorVersion">
-  </target>
-
-  <target
-    name="debug-allProperties"
-    depends="init">
-    <echoproperties />
-  </target>
 </project>
diff --git a/production/testScripts/configuration/sdk.tests/testScripts/testTestXMLScript.sh b/production/testScripts/configuration/sdk.tests/testScripts/testTestXMLScript.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 7c3cb67501a..00000000000
--- a/production/testScripts/configuration/sdk.tests/testScripts/testTestXMLScript.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,57 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-source localBuildProperties.shsource  2>/dev/null
-
-# No longer works as expected.
-# TODO: fix.
-
-#   Utility to test the test.xml file. It's intended to allow rapid confirmation
-#   that the test.xml file ends up "computing" correct values, for various versions
-#   of java and ant.
-
-#   In particular, ant cant be invoked with one version of java, but another version
-#   of java used to actually run the tests.
-
-#   Currently the file 'testing.properties' must be copied as peer of test.xml ... simply for
-#   its absence to not cause an error.
-
-#   Typically, to simulate production builds (tests) on Hudson, a 'vm.properties' tests will
-#   also be present, where alternative, specific VMs could be specified. (This allows, for example,
-#   the same Hudson setup to test Java 6, 7, or 8 (no matter what VM the ant task was
-#   started with.
-
-#   In addition to the console output. which should be captured, with something like
-#      ./testTextXMLScript.sh | tee testoutput.txt
-#   some data or set-up files will be created as they normally would if running the real tests.
-#   The can be checked to be sure they are correct, and in correct (relative) locations.
-
-# unset some common variables which we don't want (or, set ourselves)
-unset JAVA_HOME
-unset JAVA_ROOT
-unset JAVA_JRE
-unset CLASSPATH
-unset JAVA_BINDIR
-unset JRE_HOME
-
-
-#   Different versions of Ant are specified here in test script, just to confirm
-#   nothing is specific to any recent version of ant. (Though, some of the machines
-#   have ant 1.6 set as 'default'!)
-#export ANT_HOME=/shared/common/apache-ant-1.7.1
-#export ANT_HOME=/shared/common/apache-ant-1.8.4/
-export ANT_HOME=/shared/common/apache-ant-1.9.6
-
-#   JAVA_HOME is, at least, what runs the ant instance. If no 'jvm' option is specified,
-#   it also becomes the instance that runs the tests.
-JAVA_11_HOME=/opt/public/common/java/openjdk/jdk-11_x64-latest
-export JAVA_HOME=${JAVA_HOME:-${JAVA_11_HOME}}
-export PATH=${JAVA_HOME}/bin:${ANT_HOME}/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:${HOME}/bin
-
-export TESTING_TEST_XML=true
-
-#    There are a number of test-<something> methods in test xml which, by convention, mean
-#    to simply test the test script itself. The test-all target runs all of those tests.
-#ant -f test.xml test-all
-
-ant -f test.xml test-all  -propertyfile vm.properties -DbuildId=I20160430-0237 -DeclipseStream=4.7.0 -Dosgi.os=linux
-
diff --git a/production/testScripts/startTests.sh b/production/testScripts/startTests.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index b8a3a849b86..00000000000
--- a/production/testScripts/startTests.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,134 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-# this localBuildProperties.shsource file is to ease local builds to override some variables.
-# It should not be used for production builds.
-source localBuildProperties.shsource 2>/dev/null
-export BUILD_HOME=${BUILD_HOME:-/shared/eclipse/builds}
-
-# Small utility to start unit tests (or re-run them) after a build
-# and after upload to downloads server is complete.
-
-# need to be running Java 6 and Ant 1.8 for <script> to work in invokeTestsJSON
-# and, default on current build system is Ant 1.7 ... so ...
-export ANT_HOME=/shared/common/apache-ant-1.9.6
-
-function usage ()
-{
-  printf "\t\t%s\n" "usage: "
-  printf "\t\t%s\n" "$( basename $0 ) eclipseStream buildId"
-  printf "\t\t\t%s\n" "where "
-  printf "\t\t\t%s\n" "eclipseStream == 4.3.0, 3.8.2, etc. "
-  printf "\t\t\t%s\n" "buildId == M20120705-1200, IM20121005-0800, etc. "
-  printf "\t\t\t\t%s\n" "or, provide those parameters in buildParams.shshource on search path"
-}
-
-# compute main (left part) of download site
-function dlpath()
-{
-  eclipseStream=$1
-  if [[ -z "${eclipseStream}" ]]
-  then
-    printf "\n\n\t%s\n\n" "ERROR: Must provide eclipseStream as first argument, for this function $(basename $0)"
-    return 1;
-  fi
-
-
-  buildId=$2
-  if [[ -z "${buildId}" ]]
-  then
-    printf "\n\n\t%s\n\n" "ERROR: Must provide buildId as second argument, for this function $(basename $0)"
-    return 1;
-  fi
-
-  eclipseStreamMajor=${eclipseStream:0:1}
-  buildType=${buildId:0:1}
-
-  pathToDL=eclipse/downloads/drops
-  if (( $eclipseStreamMajor > 3 ))
-  then
-    pathToDL=$pathToDL$eclipseStreamMajor
-  fi
-
-  echo $pathToDL
-}
-
-
-# This file, buildParams.shsource, normally does not exist on build system,
-# but can be provided if running "by hand" as an easy way to provide the
-# parameters required. For example, the contents might be
-# eclipseStream=4.2.1
-# buildId=M20120705-1200
-#
-source buildParams.shsource 2>/dev/null
-
-# can provide eclipseStream and buildId as first two args to this script
-# which is how invoke from "promote script"
-eclipseStream=${eclipseStream:-${1}}
-buildId=${buildId:-${2}}
-EBUILDER_HASH=${EBUILDER_HASH:-${3}}
-
-if [[ -z ${eclipseStream} || -z ${buildId} ]]
-then
-  printf "\n\t%s\n" "ERROR: missing required parameters."
-  usage
-  exit 1
-fi
-
-if [[ -z "${EBUILDER_HASH}" ]]
-then
-  EBUILDER_HASH=master
-fi
-
-# contrary to intuition (and previous behavior, bash 3.1) do NOT use quotes around right side of expression.
-if [[ "${eclipseStream}" =~ ^([[:digit:]]+)\.([[:digit:]]+)\.([[:digit:]]+)$ ]]
-then
-  eclipseStreamMajor=${BASH_REMATCH[1]}
-  eclipseStreamMinor=${BASH_REMATCH[2]}
-  eclipseStreamService=${BASH_REMATCH[3]}
-else
-  printf "\n\t%s\n" "ERROR: eclipseStream, $eclipseStream, must contain major, minor, and service versions."
-  usage
-  exit 1
-fi
-
-if [[ "${buildId}" =~ ([MNIXYPU]+)([[:digit:]]*)\-([[:digit:]]*) ]]
-then
-  # old, simpler way, if we don't do regex and input checking
-  #buildType=${buildId:0:1}
-  buildType=${BASH_REMATCH[1]}
-else
-  printf "\n\t%s\n" "ERROR: buildId, $buildId, did not match expected pattern."
-  usage
-  exit 1
-fi
-
-
-
-echo "values in ${0}"
-echo "eclipseStream: $eclipseStream"
-echo "eclipseStreamMajor: $eclipseStreamMajor"
-echo "eclipseStreamMinor: $eclipseStreamMinor"
-echo "eclipseStreamService: $eclipseStreamService"
-echo "buildType: $buildType"
-echo "buildId: $buildId"
-echo "EBUILDER_HASH: $EBUILDER_HASH"
-echo "BUILD_HOME: ${BUILD_HOME}"
-
-  buildRoot=${BUILD_HOME}/${eclipseStreamMajor}${buildType}
-  eclipsebuilder=eclipse.platform.releng.aggregator/production/testScripts
-  dlPath=$( dlpath $eclipseStream $buildId )
-  echo "DEBUG dlPath: $dlPath"
-  buildDropDir=${buildRoot}/siteDir/$dlPath/${buildId}
-  echo "DEBGUG buildDropDir: $buildDropDir"
-  builderDropDir=${buildDropDir}/${eclipsebuilder}
-  echo "DEBUG: builderDropDir: ${builderDropDir}"
-
-echo "DEBUG: invoking test scripts on Hudson"
-
-ant \
-  -DpostingDirectory=${buildDropDir} \
-  -DbuildId=${buildId} \
-  -DeclipseStream=${eclipseStream} \
-  -DEBUILDER_HASH=${EBUILDER_HASH} \
-  -f ${builderDropDir}/invokeTestsJSON.xml
-
diff --git a/production/testScripts/test_runTests2.xml.sh b/production/testScripts/test_runTests2.xml.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index b30243f0b02..00000000000
--- a/production/testScripts/test_runTests2.xml.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,102 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-#   Utility to test the runTests2.xml file. It's intended to allow rapid confirmation
-#   that the runTests2.xml file computes correct values, for various versions platforms
-#   and various versions of java and ant, etc.
-
-#   In particular, ant can be invoked with one version of java, but another version
-#   of java used to actually run the tests.
-
-#   In addition to the console output. which should be captured, with something like
-#      ./testTextXMLScript.sh | tee testoutput.txt
-#   some data or set-up files will be created as they normally would if running the real tests.
-#   The can be checked to be sure they are correct, and in correct (relative) locations.
-
-# unset some common variables which we don't want (or, set ourselves)
-unset JAVA_HOME
-unset JAVA_ROOT
-unset JAVA_JRE
-unset CLASSPATH
-unset JAVA_BINDIR
-unset JRE_HOME
-
-function clean()
-{
-
-  echo -e "\n Cleaning previous results, as requested."
-  # remember, do not want to rm "out.txt" since we may be currently piping to it via 'tee'.
-  rm -fr ${WORKSPACE}/eclipse.platform.releng.aggregator/ eclipse.platform.releng.aggregator-master.zip  getEBuilder.xml  runTests2.xml tempEBuilder/
-
-  rm -fr ${WORKSPACE}/production.properties propertiesAllFromRunTest2.properties sdk.tests streamSpecific-build.properties workarea
-
-}
-
-source localBuildProperties.shsource 2>/dev/null
-#   Different versions of Ant are specified here in test script, just to confirm
-#   nothing is specific to any recent version of ant. (Though, some of the machines
-#   have ant 1.6 set as 'default'!)
-export ANT_HOME=/shared/common/apache-ant-1.9.6
-
-#   JAVA_HOME is, at least, what runs the ant instance. If no 'jvm' option is specified,
-#   it also becomes the instance that runs the tests.
-JAVA_11_HOME=/opt/public/common/java/openjdk/jdk-11_x64-latest
-export JAVA_HOME=${JAVA_HOME:-${JAVA_11_HOME}} 
-
-# added /opt/local/bin for 'port' version of wget, on Mac
-export PATH=${JAVA_HOME}/bin:${ANT_HOME}/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:${HOME}/bin:/opt/local/bin
-
-# Be sure to set to a "fresh" non-cluttered area, so can be easily cleaned up.
-export WORKSPACE=${HOME}/tempworkarea
-
-# This variable signals parts of the script that we are testing the test scripts,
-# and should not actually start the tests.
-export TESTING_TEST_XML=true
-export ANT_OPTS=-Djava.io.tmpdir=${WORKSPACE}/tmp
-mkdir -p ${WORKSPACE}/tmp
-if [[ "$1" == "-c" ]]
-then
-  clean
-fi
-
-if [[ -z "${GIT_HOST}" ]]
-then
-  GIT_HOST=git.eclipse.org
-fi
-
-# print basic diagnostics and properties
-ant -diagnostics
-java -XshowSettings -version
-
-# Note: currently this file always comes from master, no matter what branch is being built/tested.
-wget -O ${WORKSPACE}/getEBuilder.xml --no-verbose   https://${GIT_HOST}/c/platform/eclipse.platform.releng.aggregator.git/plain/production/testScripts/hudsonBootstrap/getEBuilder.xml 2>&1
-
-# or test the local version, checked-out version from tree location,
-# not necessarily checked in, yet, though many other
-# files are still checked out.
-# cp -v hudsonBootstrap/getEBuilder.xml ${WORKSPACE}/
-
-# Can only test the "downloadURL form" if there is a current, accurate build.
-# During development, should use git/master version. (Not sure what this downloads, then?)
-
-ANTFILE=getEBuilder.xml
-buildId=I20150320-0800
-eclipseStream=4.34.0
-EBUILDER_HASH=master
-#EBUILDER_HASH=4295494c43e464a0c4ee39b7e0c847fbc3263f2a
-
-# Record where we are executing from.
-echo "PWD: $PWD"
-
-#  ? There are a number of test-<something> methods in test xml which, by convention, mean
-#    to simply test the test script itself. The test-all target runs all of those tests.
-#  MUST change the arch values here, then testing on other platforms!
-ant -f "${WORKSPACE}/${ANTFILE}" -Dbasebuilderlocal=/shared/eclipse/buildtests -DbuildId=$buildId -DeclipseStream=$eclipseStream -Dosgi.os=linux -Dosgi.ws=gtk -Dosgi.arch=x86_64 -DEBUILDER_HASH=${EBUILDER_HASH} -DdownloadURL=https://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/${buildId} -Dtest.target=performance
-#ant -f "${WORKSPACE}/${ANTFILE}" -Dbasebuilderlocal=/shared/eclipse/buildtests -DbuildId=$buildId -DeclipseStream=$eclipseStream -Dosgi.os=macosx -Dosgi.ws=cocoa -Dosgi.arch=x86_64 -DEBUILDER_HASH=${EBUILDER_HASH} -DdownloadURL=https://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/${buildId} -Dtest.target=performance
-rc=$?
-if [[ $rc == 0 ]]
-then
-   echo "Ant returned non-zero return code: $rc."
-else
-   echo "Ant returned normally. (Check log for BUILD FAILED/SUCCESS)"
-fi
-echo "check output in ${WORKSPACE}, especially ${WORKSPACE}/workarea"