diff --git a/make/swig.mk b/make/swig.mk
index 5c40eca3..18763b66 100644
--- a/make/swig.mk
+++ b/make/swig.mk
@@ -75,6 +75,28 @@ all:
 %.pyc: %.py
 	python2 -m py_compile $<
 
+else ifeq ($(SWIG_TARGET),java)
+
+  JAVA_VERSION               ?= $(basename $(lastword $(shell java -version 2>&1 | sed '/version/ !d')))
+  JAVA_MAJOR_VERSION         ?= $(basename $(JAVA_VERSION))
+  JAVA_MINOR_VERSION         ?= $(patsubst .%,%,$(suffix $(JAVA_VERSION)))
+
+  SWIG_LANG                  ?= java
+  SWIG_TARGET_EXT            ?= java
+  SWIG_OPTS                  ?= -java
+  SWIG_MODULE_TARGET_DIR      = /usr/share/java
+  SWIG_MODULE_SO             ?= $(SWIG_MODULE).so
+  SWIG_CLEAN                 += $(wildcard *.java)
+
+  #SWIG_PY_MODULE_PYC         ?= $(patsubst %.py,%.pyc,$(SWIG_MODULE_TARGET))
+  #SWIG_GENERATED_EXTRA       += $(SWIG_PY_MODULE_PYC)
+  #SWIG_INSTALLED_EXTRA       += $(SWIG_MODULE_TARGET_DIR)/$(SWIG_PY_MODULE_PYC)
+
+  INCLUDE                    += -I$(JAVA_HOME)/include -I$(JAVA_HOME)/include/linux
+  #BUILD_LDFLAGS              +=
+
+  INSTALL_LIBDIR              = $(SWIG_MODULE_TARGET_DIR)
+
 else ifeq ($(SWIG_TARGET),perl)
 
   SWIG_LANG                  ?= perl