diff --git a/src/main/starlark/builtins_bzl/bazel/java/bazel_java_binary_deploy_jar.bzl b/src/main/starlark/builtins_bzl/bazel/java/bazel_java_binary_deploy_jar.bzl
index 204de369a57a93..7e426797e3b3a7 100644
--- a/src/main/starlark/builtins_bzl/bazel/java/bazel_java_binary_deploy_jar.bzl
+++ b/src/main/starlark/builtins_bzl/bazel/java/bazel_java_binary_deploy_jar.bzl
@@ -59,4 +59,7 @@ def _bazel_deploy_jars_impl(ctx):
 
     return []
 
-deploy_jars = make_deploy_jars_rule(implementation = _bazel_deploy_jars_impl)
+deploy_jars = make_deploy_jars_rule(
+    implementation = _bazel_deploy_jars_impl,
+    needs_runtime = False,
+)
diff --git a/src/main/starlark/builtins_bzl/common/java/java_binary_deploy_jar.bzl b/src/main/starlark/builtins_bzl/common/java/java_binary_deploy_jar.bzl
index b86aa36b41a446..e672270a9984d2 100644
--- a/src/main/starlark/builtins_bzl/common/java/java_binary_deploy_jar.bzl
+++ b/src/main/starlark/builtins_bzl/common/java/java_binary_deploy_jar.bzl
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ def _implicit_outputs(binary):
         "unstrippeddeployjar": "%s_deploy.jar.unstripped" % binary_name,
     }
 
-def make_deploy_jars_rule(implementation):
+def make_deploy_jars_rule(implementation, needs_runtime = True):
     """Creates the deploy jar auxiliary rule for java_binary
 
     Args:
@@ -274,12 +274,19 @@ def make_deploy_jars_rule(implementation):
             ),
             "_cc_toolchain": attr.label(default = "@" + cc_semantics.get_repo() + "//tools/cpp:current_cc_toolchain"),
             "_java_toolchain_type": attr.label(default = semantics.JAVA_TOOLCHAIN_TYPE),
-            "_java_runtime_toolchain_type": attr.label(default = semantics.JAVA_RUNTIME_TOOLCHAIN_TYPE),
             "_build_info_translator": attr.label(
                 default = semantics.BUILD_INFO_TRANSLATOR_LABEL,
             ),
-        },
+        } | (
+            {
+                "_java_runtime_toolchain_type": attr.label(
+                    default = semantics.JAVA_RUNTIME_TOOLCHAIN_TYPE,
+                ),
+            } if needs_runtime else {}
+        ),
         outputs = _implicit_outputs,
         fragments = ["java"],
-        toolchains = [semantics.JAVA_TOOLCHAIN, semantics.JAVA_RUNTIME_TOOLCHAIN] + cc_helper.use_cpp_toolchain(),
+        toolchains = [semantics.JAVA_TOOLCHAIN] + cc_helper.use_cpp_toolchain() + (
+            [semantics.JAVA_RUNTIME_TOOLCHAIN] if needs_runtime else []
+        ),
     )