diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 8f65c72f7d0717ec597b59cf48cc2aa45b458029..4ad315d01d3a6092c60301aa34387e55902729db 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -7,19 +7,19 @@ notifications:
 
 language: java
 
+jdk:
+  - oraclejdk8
+
 matrix:
   include:
   # On OSX, run with default JDK only.
   # - os: osx
   # On Linux, run with specific JDKs only.
   - os: linux
-    env: CUSTOM_JDK="oraclejdk8"
 
 before_install:
   - echo 'MAVEN_OPTS="$MAVEN_OPTS -Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m -XX:+BytecodeVerificationLocal"' >> ~/.mavenrc
   - cat ~/.mavenrc
-  - if [ "$TRAVIS_OS_NAME" == "osx" ]; then export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home); fi
-  - if [ "$TRAVIS_OS_NAME" == "linux" ]; then jdk_switcher use "$CUSTOM_JDK"; fi
 
 script:
   - travis_retry mvn -B clean apache-rat:check