diff --git a/batik-script/src/main/java/org/apache/batik/script/jpython/JPythonInterpreter.java b/batik-script/src/main/java/org/apache/batik/script/jpython/JPythonInterpreter.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 7065386..0000000
--- a/batik-script/src/main/java/org/apache/batik/script/jpython/JPythonInterpreter.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,105 +0,0 @@
-/*
-
-   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-   The ASF licenses this file to You 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.
-
- */
-package org.apache.batik.script.jpython;
-
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.Reader;
-import java.io.Writer;
-import java.util.Locale;
-
-import org.apache.batik.script.InterpreterException;
-import org.python.util.PythonInterpreter;
-
-/**
- * A simple implementation of <code>Interpreter</code> interface to use
- * JPython python parser.
- * @author <a href="mailto:cjolif@ilog.fr">Christophe Jolif</a>
- * @version $Id: JPythonInterpreter.java 1733416 2016-03-03 07:07:13Z gadams $
- */
-public class JPythonInterpreter implements org.apache.batik.script.Interpreter {
-    private PythonInterpreter interpreter = null;
-
-    public JPythonInterpreter() {
-        interpreter = new PythonInterpreter();
-    }
-
-    // org.apache.batik.script.Intepreter implementation
-
-    /**
-     * Returns the content types of the scripting languages this interpreter
-     * handles.
-     */
-    public String[] getMimeTypes() {
-        return JPythonInterpreterFactory.JPYTHON_MIMETYPES;
-    }
-
-    public Object evaluate(Reader scriptreader)
-        throws IOException {
-        return evaluate(scriptreader, "");
-    }
-
-    public Object evaluate(Reader scriptreader, String description)
-        throws IOException {
-
-        // oups jpython doesn't accept reader in its eval method :-(
-        StringBuffer sbuffer = new StringBuffer();
-        char[] buffer = new char[1024];
-        int val = 0;
-        while ((val = scriptreader.read(buffer)) != -1) {
-            sbuffer.append(buffer,0, val);
-        }
-        String str = sbuffer.toString();
-        return evaluate(str);
-    }
-
-    public Object evaluate(String script) {
-        try {
-            interpreter.exec(script);
-        } catch (org.python.core.PyException e) {
-            throw new InterpreterException(e, e.getMessage(), -1, -1);
-        } catch (RuntimeException re) {
-            throw new InterpreterException(re, re.getMessage(), -1, -1);
-        }
-        return null;
-    }
-
-    public void dispose() {
-    }
-
-    public void bindObject(String name, Object object) {
-        interpreter.set(name, object);
-    }
-
-    public void setOut(Writer out) {
-        interpreter.setOut(out);
-    }
-
-    // org.apache.batik.i18n.Localizable implementation
-
-    public Locale getLocale() {
-        return null;
-    }
-
-    public void setLocale(Locale locale) {
-    }
-
-    public String formatMessage(String key, Object[] args) {
-        return null;
-    }
-}
diff --git a/batik-script/src/main/java/org/apache/batik/script/jpython/JPythonInterpreterFactory.java b/batik-script/src/main/java/org/apache/batik/script/jpython/JPythonInterpreterFactory.java
index 3004921..a80c7a8 100644
--- a/batik-script/src/main/java/org/apache/batik/script/jpython/JPythonInterpreterFactory.java
+++ b/batik-script/src/main/java/org/apache/batik/script/jpython/JPythonInterpreterFactory.java
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ public class JPythonInterpreterFactory implements InterpreterFactory {
      * @param svg12 whether the document is an SVG 1.2 document
      */
     public Interpreter createInterpreter(URL documentURL, boolean svg12) {
-        return new JPythonInterpreter();
+        return null;
     }
 
     /**
@@ -69,6 +69,6 @@ public class JPythonInterpreterFactory implements InterpreterFactory {
      */
     public Interpreter createInterpreter(URL documentURL, boolean svg12,
                                          ImportInfo imports) {
-        return new JPythonInterpreter();
+        return null;
     }
 }