diff --git a/icu4j/build.xml b/icu4j/build.xml
index 0d9003dbc3..a284893b6c 100644
--- a/icu4j/build.xml
+++ b/icu4j/build.xml
@@ -293,9 +293,11 @@
 
     <target name ="testData" depends="init">
         <copy file="${src.dir}/com/ibm/icu/dev/data/rbbi/english.dict"
-            todir="${build.dir}/com/ibm/icu/dev/data/rbbi"/>
+	    todir="${build.dir}/com/ibm/icu/dev/data/rbbi"/>
         <copy file="${src.dir}/com/ibm/icu/dev/test/rbbi/rbbitst.txt"
-            todir="${build.dir}/com/ibm/icu/dev/test/rbbi"/>
+	    todir="${build.dir}/com/ibm/icu/dev/test/rbbi"/>
+        <copy file="${src.dir}/com/ibm/icu/dev/data/riwords.txt"
+            todir="${build.dir}/com/ibm/icu/dev/data"/>
         <javac includes="com/ibm/icu/dev/data/*.java"
             excludes="**/CVS/**/*"
             srcdir="${src.dir}"
@@ -306,6 +308,10 @@
             <fileset dir="${src.dir}/com/ibm/icu/dev/data"
                 includes="*.spp"/>
         </copy>
+        <copy todir="${build.dir}/com/ibm/icu/dev/data/unicode">
+	    <fileset dir="${src.dir}/com/ibm/icu/dev/data/unicode"
+	        includes="*.txt"/>
+	</copy>
         <copy file="${src.dir}/com/ibm/icu/dev/test/format/NumberFormatTestCases.txt"
             todir="${build.dir}/com/ibm/icu/dev/test/format"/>
         <unjar src="${src.dir}/com/ibm/icu/dev/data/testdata.jar" dest="${build.dir}"/>
@@ -477,12 +483,14 @@
 
     <target name="secureCheck" depends="testJar" description="run secure (applet-like) icu4j test suite">
     <java classname="com.ibm.icu.dev.test.TestAll" fork="yes">
-        <!-- (use for debugging, LOTS of output) jvmarg value="-Djava.security.debug=access" -->
+    <!-- jvmarg value="-verbose"/ -->
+        <!-- (use for debugging, LOTS of output) <jvmarg value="-Djava.security.debug=access:trace"/ -->
         <jvmarg value="-Djava.security.manager"/>
         <jvmarg value="-Djava.security.policy=${src.dir}/com/ibm/icu/dev/test/security.policy"/>
         <arg value="-w"/>
         <classpath>
             <pathelement location="clover.jar"/>
+            <pathelement location="${jar.file}"/>
             <pathelement location="${testjar.file}"/>
         </classpath>
     </java>
diff --git a/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/dev/test/util/ICUResourceBundleTest.java b/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/dev/test/util/ICUResourceBundleTest.java
index 742d447f57..7c47bd59dc 100644
--- a/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/dev/test/util/ICUResourceBundleTest.java
+++ b/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/dev/test/util/ICUResourceBundleTest.java
@@ -39,6 +39,10 @@ public final class ICUResourceBundleTest extends TestFmwk {
                 //URL url = loader.getResource("LocaleElements_en.class");
                 //File file = new File(url.getPath());
                 URL url = (URL)en.nextElement();
+		if (url == null) {
+		    warnln("could not load resource data");
+		    return;
+		}
                 File file = new File(url.getPath());
                 File[] files = file.listFiles();
                 if(files!=null){
@@ -48,9 +52,13 @@ public final class ICUResourceBundleTest extends TestFmwk {
                 }
             }
         }catch(SecurityException ex) {
-            warnln("could not load resource data");
+            warnln("could not load resource data: " + ex);
+	}catch(NullPointerException ex) {
+	    // thrown by ibm 1.4.2 windows jvm security manager
+	    warnln("could not load resource data: " + ex);
         }catch(Exception ex){
-            errln("Unexpected exception: "+ ex.getMessage());
+	    ex.printStackTrace();
+            errln("Unexpected exception: "+ ex);
         }
     }
     public void TestResourceBundleWrapper(){