Java versions for LanguageTool standalone

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Hello Team,

To use LanguageTool standalone, only Java is necessary: What is needed to install LanguageTool as desktop standalone.

To build LT with Maven, you can use Java 11: Cannot build LT with Java 11.

Java is developed by Oracle: Java (software platform) - Wikipedia. Java 11, Java 17, and Java 21 all have long-term support from Oracle.

Free implementations of Java are available from organizations other than Oracle: Free Java implementations - Wikipedia.

My questions (on behalf of a possible customer for the STE checker):

  • Is it possible to use LanguageTool standalone with versions of Java from Oracle other than Java 8? (The possible customer does not want to use Oracle Java 8 because they say that payment to Oracle is necessary.)
  • Is it possible to use LanguageTool standalone with free implementation of Java? If yes, which implementations, and which versions?

Thank you.

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Yes, OpenJDK Java 17 works, for example. All other OpenJDK versions should also work, although there might be edge cases where the behavior of regex has changed.

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Thanks @dnaber.