Right now committing to the Flutter engine (supposedly) requires Oracle's java installed:

https://github.com/flutter/engine/blob/main/docs/contributing/Setting-up-the-Engine-development-environment.md

Which (appears?) to require those of us who work at companies to sign some agreement with oracle to be able to use java?

https://www.java.com/en/download/

As far as I can tell, the formatter just wants to run java, which users already have installed due to Android Studio or other sources.

flutter has a bunch of logic to find java:

We don't need anything quite that fancy, but even just falling back to /Applications/Android\ Studio.app/Contents/jbr/Contents/Home/bin/java would be sufficient on mac to find java for the vast majority of potential Flutter committers.

My guess is that java just comes installed on Google Corp and thus this doesn't show up for Googlers. 🤷

FYI @reidbaker