diff --git a/play-scala-tls-example/play b/play-scala-tls-example/play
index d6d57f73c..c29095bda 100755
--- a/play-scala-tls-example/play
+++ b/play-scala-tls-example/play
@@ -61,24 +61,6 @@ JVM_OPTIONS="$JVM_OPTIONS -Dsun.security.ssl.allowLegacyHelloMessages=false"
 JVM_OPTIONS="$JVM_OPTIONS -Dkey.password=$KEY_PASSWORD"
 JVM_OPTIONS="$JVM_OPTIONS -DcertificateDirectory=$DIR/scripts"
 
-# ssl-play requires an ALPN Agent. This is downdloaded and stored in the target folder.
-# This snippet detects when the ALPN agent hasn't been downloaded yet and runs
-# `sbt stage` to obtain it.
-export AGENT_TEST=$(pwd)/$(find target -name 'jetty-alpn-agent-*.jar')
-export NUM_AGENTS_FOUND=$(echo $AGENT_TEST| grep target | wc -l)
-
-if [ $NUM_AGENTS_FOUND -eq "0" ]; then
-   echo "No ALPN Agent jar found, running 'sbt stage'"
-   sbt stage;
-fi
-
-# Start `sbt` with the JVM_OPTIONS and the ALPN agent
-export AGENT=$(pwd)/$(find target -name 'jetty-alpn-agent-*.jar' | head -1)
-echo "Detected ALPN Agent: $AGENT "
-
-# Run Play (this should work for both run and start).
-export SBT_OPTS="$SBT_OPTS -J-javaagent:$AGENT"
-
 ## Ucomment the following to debug SSL issues.
 #export SBT_OPTS="$SBT_OPTS -Djavax.net.debug=all"