diff --git a/java/README.md b/java/README.md
index 4919578b1..a734273d6 100644
--- a/java/README.md
+++ b/java/README.md
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 Prerequisites
 -------------
 
-* JDK 24
+* JDK 22
 * Maven 3.9.6 or later
 
-Please build libcuvs (`./build.sh libcuvs` from top level directory) before building the Java API. 
+Please build libcuvs (`./build.sh libcuvs` from top level directory) before building the Java API with `./build.sh` from this directory. 
 
 Building
 --------
 
-./build.sh will generate the libcuvs_java.so file in internal/ directory, and then build the final jar file for the cuVS Java API in cuvs-java/ directory.
+`./build.sh` will generate the libcuvs_java.so file in internal/ directory, and then build the final jar file for the cuVS Java API in cuvs-java/ directory.
diff --git a/java/build.sh b/java/build.sh
index b06cf2fac..162c9e83f 100755
--- a/java/build.sh
+++ b/java/build.sh
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 export CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=`pwd`/../cpp/build
-cd internal
-cmake .
-cmake --build .
-cd ..
-mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=com.nvidia.cuvs -DartifactId=cuvs-java-internal -Dversion=0.1 -Dpackaging=so -Dfile=./internal/libcuvs_java.so
-
-cd cuvs-java
-mvn package
+cd internal && cmake . && cmake --build . \
+  && cd .. \
+  && mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=com.nvidia.cuvs -DartifactId=cuvs-java-internal -Dversion=0.1 -Dpackaging=so -Dfile=./internal/libcuvs_java.so \
+  && cd cuvs-java \
+  && mvn package