diff --git a/scripts/buildProtoFilesJava.sh b/scripts/buildProtoFilesJava.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000..79da6208ba073
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/buildProtoFilesJava.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -e
+startDir=`pwd`
+javaSrcDir="$startDir"/java/src/main/java
+protoFileDir="$startDir"/protofiles
+scriptsDir="$startDir"/scripts
+thirdPartyDir="$startDir"/thirdParty
+DIST=dist
+DISTDIR="$thirdPartyDir"/$DIST
+protoInstallDir="$DISTDIR"/protobuf/
+protoc="$protoInstallDir"/bin/protoc
+PROTOBUFFER_VERSION=2.5.0
+GLOBAL_CPP_FLAGS="-fPIC"
+
+if [ ! -f "$protoc" ]; then
+  sh "$scriptsDir"/compileThirdParty.sh
+fi
+
+export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$protoInstallDir"/lib
+
+mkdir -p "$javaSrcDir"
+cd "$javaSrcDir"
+"$protoc" -I="$protoFileDir" --java_out=. "$protoFileDir"/BaseConfMsg.proto
+# the build below will generate java code with single methods > 64k, to fix this
+# we would have to enable option optimize_for = CODE_SIZE
+#"$protoc" -I="$protoFileDir" --java_out=. "$protoFileDir"/DpiMsgLRproto.proto
+for file in `ls "$protoFileDir" | grep -v DpiMsgLRproto | grep -v Applications` ; do 
+  "$protoc" -I="$protoFileDir" --java_out=. "$protoFileDir"/$file
+done
+cd "$startDir"