diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/jikes/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/jikes/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 1247f369c5c..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/jikes/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-{stdenv, fetchurl}:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "jikes-1.22";
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = mirror://sourceforge/jikes/jikes-1.22.tar.bz2;
-    sha256 = "1qqldrp74pzpy5ly421srqn30qppmm9cvjiqdngk8hf47dv2rc0c";
-  };
-
-  meta = {
-    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
-    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.epl10;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index 65bbe42ef6e..97c3f1df458 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -162,6 +162,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   infiniband-diags = rdma-core; # added 2019-08-09
   inotifyTools = inotify-tools;
   jbuilder = dune; # added 2018-09-09
+  jikes = throw "deprecated in 2019-10-07: abandoned by upstream";
   joseki = apache-jena-fuseki; # added 2016-02-28
   json_glib = json-glib; # added 2018-02-25
   kdiff3-qt5 = kdiff3; # added 2017-02-18
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 4f2f5edee10..b0f0b832a6e 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -8099,8 +8099,6 @@ in
 
   javacard-devkit = pkgsi686Linux.callPackage ../development/compilers/javacard-devkit { };
 
-  jikes = callPackage ../development/compilers/jikes { };
-
   julia_07 = callPackage ../development/compilers/julia/0.7.nix {
     gmp = gmp6;
     openblas = openblasCompat;