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    <section id="installation">
        <h2 class="section-title">Installation</h2>
        <p>
            Apache NLPCraft requires <b>no special installation</b> operations:
        </p>
        <ul>
            <li>If you <a href="/download.html">downloaded</a> binary ZIP archive - verify it and unzip it</li>
            <li>If you <a href="/download.html">cloned</a> GitHub repository or downloaded source archive - use <code>mvn clean install</code> to build it</li>
            <li>If you <a href="/download.html">used</a> Maven/Gradle/SBT - you know what you are doing 👍</li>
        </ul>
    </section>
    <section id="ignite">
        <h2 class="section-title">Apache Ignite 2.7 <span class="amp">&amp;</span> Java 9+</h2>
        <p>
            By default NLPCraft uses <a target=_ href="https://ignite.apache.org/">Apache Ignite</a> project as its
            underlying in-memory distributed storage and cluster computing framework. If running with Apache Ignite 2.7 or
            earlier on Java 9/10/11 you need to follow these
            <a target=_ href="https://apacheignite.readme.io/docs/getting-started#section-running-ignite-with-java-9-10-11">instructions.</a>
            For Java 8 no additional parameters are required.
        </p>
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            <p>
                <b>NOTE:</b> It is NOT recommended to change the version of Apache Ignite inside NLPCraft project.
            </p>
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    </section>
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        <li class="side-nav-title">On This Page</li>
        <li><a href="#installation">Installation</a></li>
        <li><a href="#ignite">Apache Ignite</a></li>
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