diff --git a/cave/com.raytheon.viz.product.awips/awips.product b/cave/com.raytheon.viz.product.awips/awips.product
index 0800f2b998..ffa33d0a95 100644
--- a/cave/com.raytheon.viz.product.awips/awips.product
+++ b/cave/com.raytheon.viz.product.awips/awips.product
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@
 -Dlogback.configurationFile=logback-viz-core.xml
 -Dlogback.statusListenerClass=com.raytheon.uf.common.status.logback.UFLogbackInternalStatusListener
 -Dthrift.stream.maxsize=200
--Djava.util.Arrays.useLegacyMergeSort=true
 -Dviz.memory.warn.threshold=98</vmArgs>
       <vmArgsLin>-Xmx1280M -XX:MaxDirectMemorySize=2G</vmArgsLin>
       <vmArgsWin>-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Xmx768M</vmArgsWin>
diff --git a/edexOsgi/build.edex/esb/conf/wrapper.conf b/edexOsgi/build.edex/esb/conf/wrapper.conf
index 58c8e39102..f9a378082f 100644
--- a/edexOsgi/build.edex/esb/conf/wrapper.conf
+++ b/edexOsgi/build.edex/esb/conf/wrapper.conf
@@ -93,9 +93,6 @@ wrapper.java.additional.4=-Dorg.apache.camel.jmx.disabled=true
 # Enforces GMT to be used as the timezone
 wrapper.java.additional.5=-Duser.timezone=GMT
 
-# Force Java 7 to use earlier sort algorithm
-wrapper.java.additional.6=-Djava.util.Arrays.useLegacyMergeSort=true
-
 # garbage collection settings
 wrapper.java.additional.gc.1=-XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC
 wrapper.java.additional.gc.2=-XX:+CMSIncrementalMode