diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index e0418d2cc..ce4a8c0e9 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -503,10 +503,8 @@ def createGetBuildSrcDirectDepsTask(outputFileName) {
 
 rootProject.ext {
   invokeJavaDiffFormatScript = { action ->
-    println("JAVA_HOME=${System.env.JAVA_HOME}")
-    println("PATH=${System.env.PATH}")
-    println(ext.execInBash("type java", "${rootDir}"))
-    println(ext.execInBash("java -version", "${rootDir}"))
+    def javaHome = project.findProperty('org.gradle.java.home')
+    println("Running the formatting tool with JDK at $javaHome")
     def scriptDir = rootDir.path.endsWith('buildSrc')
             ? "${rootDir}/../java-format"
             : "${rootDir}/java-format"
@@ -517,7 +515,7 @@ rootProject.ext {
     def pythonExe = getPythonExecutable()
 
     return ext.execInBash(
-        "PYTHON=${pythonExe} ${formatDiffScript} ${action}", "${workingDir}")
+        "JAVA=${javaHome}/bin/java PYTHON=${pythonExe} ${formatDiffScript} ${action}", "${workingDir}")
   }
 }
 
diff --git a/java-format/google-java-format-1.19.2-all-deps.jar b/java-format/google-java-format-1.19.2-all-deps.jar
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..63a326d71
Binary files /dev/null and b/java-format/google-java-format-1.19.2-all-deps.jar differ
diff --git a/java-format/google-java-format-1.8-all-deps.jar b/java-format/google-java-format-1.8-all-deps.jar
deleted file mode 100644
index 26f21d10f..000000000
Binary files a/java-format/google-java-format-1.8-all-deps.jar and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/java-format/google-java-format-git-diff.sh b/java-format/google-java-format-git-diff.sh
index 851b0bf84..f0bbb0f0f 100755
--- a/java-format/google-java-format-git-diff.sh
+++ b/java-format/google-java-format-git-diff.sh
@@ -40,37 +40,22 @@ where:
     show   show the effect of the formatting as unified diff"
 
 SCRIPT_DIR="$(realpath $(dirname $0))"
-JAR_NAME="google-java-format-1.8-all-deps.jar"
+JAR_NAME="google-java-format-1.19.2-all-deps.jar"
 
 # Make sure we have a valid python interpreter.
 if [ -z "$PYTHON" ]; then
-  echo "You must specify the name of a python3 interpreter in the PYTHON" \
+  echo "You must specify the name of a Python interpreter in the PYTHON" \
        "environment variable."
   exit 1
 elif ! "$PYTHON" -c ''; then
-  echo "Invalid python interpreter: $PYTHON"
+  echo "Invalid Python interpreter: $PYTHON"
   exit 1
 fi
 
-# Locate the java binary.
-if [ -n "$JAVA_HOME" ]; then
-  JAVA_BIN="$JAVA_HOME/bin/java"
-  if [ ! -x "$JAVA_BIN" ]; then
-    echo "No java binary found in JAVA_HOME (JAVA_HOME is $JAVA_HOME)"
-    exit 1
-  fi
-else
-  # Use java from the path.
-  JAVA_BIN="$(which java)" || JAVA_BIN=""
-  if [ -z "$JAVA_BIN" ]; then
-    echo "JAVA_HOME is not defined and java was not found on the path"
-    exit 1
-  fi
-fi
-
-if ! "$JAVA_BIN" -version 2>&1 | grep 'version "11\.' >/dev/null; then
-  echo "Bad java version.  Requires java 11, got:"
-  "$JAVA_BIN" -version
+# Make sure we have a valid JRE binary
+if [ -z "$JAVA" ]; then
+  echo "You must specify the name of a JRE binary in the JAVA" \
+       "environment variable."
   exit 1
 fi
 
@@ -80,7 +65,7 @@ function runGoogleJavaFormatAgainstDiffs() {
 
   git diff -U0 "$forkPoint" | \
       "${PYTHON}" "${SCRIPT_DIR}/google-java-format-diff.py" \
-          --java-binary "$JAVA_BIN" \
+          --java-binary "$JAVA" \
           --google-java-format-jar "${SCRIPT_DIR}/${JAR_NAME}" \
           -p1 "$@" | \
       tee gjf.out