That is fairly overblown, especially post Java 9 (2017).
Generally speaking you just target a minimum version if you want to not distribute the JVM itself but these days most Java software is backend software, most of which is containerized, packaging the runtime with the code itself.
Generally speaking you just target a minimum version if you want to not distribute the JVM itself but these days most Java software is backend software, most of which is containerized, packaging the runtime with the code itself.