diff --git a/java-virtuals/jaf/jaf-1.1-r1.ebuild b/java-virtuals/jaf/jaf-1.1-r1.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 0f45e91973e6c..0000000000000
--- a/java-virtuals/jaf/jaf-1.1-r1.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=5
-
-inherit java-virtuals-2
-
-DESCRIPTION="Virtual for JavaBeans Activation Framework (JAF)"
-HOMEPAGE="https://www.gentoo.org"
-SRC_URI=""
-
-LICENSE="public-domain"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="amd64 ~arm ppc64 x86 ~amd64-fbsd ~x86-fbsd ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x86-macos ~sparc-solaris ~sparc64-solaris ~x64-solaris ~x86-solaris"
-IUSE=""
-
-DEPEND=""
-RDEPEND="|| (
-			>=virtual/jre-1.6
-			dev-java/sun-jaf:0
-			dev-java/gnu-jaf:1
-		)
-		>=dev-java/java-config-2.1.8
-		"
-
-JAVA_VIRTUAL_PROVIDES="sun-jaf gnu-jaf-1"
-JAVA_VIRTUAL_VM=">=virtual/jre-1.6"
diff --git a/java-virtuals/jaf/metadata.xml b/java-virtuals/jaf/metadata.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 2444066aa02b1..0000000000000
--- a/java-virtuals/jaf/metadata.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
-<pkgmetadata>
-<maintainer type="project">
-	<email>java@gentoo.org</email>
-	<name>Java</name>
-</maintainer>
-</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/profiles/package.mask b/profiles/package.mask
index fe73f5d42d8b3..98bbe441fc03d 100644
--- a/profiles/package.mask
+++ b/profiles/package.mask
@@ -514,11 +514,6 @@ app-office/calligra-l10n
 # Bug #623654.
 dev-db/haildb
 
-# Patrice Clement <monsieurp@gentoo.org> (05 Jul 2017)
-# Part of the JRE since 1.6.
-# Masked for removal in 30 days. Bug #553188.
-java-virtual/jaf
-
 # Matthias Schwarzott <zzam@gentoo.org> (03 Jul 2017)
 # The snapshots got a wrong version number assigned.
 # They are from before version 2.0.0. Masking them to force