diff --git a/external/beanshell/UnpackedTarball_beanshell.mk b/external/beanshell/UnpackedTarball_beanshell.mk
index f35dd7d794a1..dc0ce6dc6cb5 100644
--- a/external/beanshell/UnpackedTarball_beanshell.mk
+++ b/external/beanshell/UnpackedTarball_beanshell.mk
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ $(eval $(call gb_UnpackedTarball_fix_end_of_line,beanshell,\
 $(eval $(call gb_UnpackedTarball_add_patches,beanshell,\
 	external/beanshell/bsh-2.0b1-src.patch \
 	external/beanshell/beanshell-invoke.patch \
+	external/beanshell/java9.patch.0 \
 ))
 
 # vim: set noet sw=4 ts=4:
diff --git a/external/beanshell/java9.patch.0 b/external/beanshell/java9.patch.0
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2dfd5074afdf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/external/beanshell/java9.patch.0
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+--- build.xml
++++ build.xml
+@@ -176,7 +176,6 @@
+ 			deprecation="${deprecation}"
+ 			optimize="on"
+ 			debug="on"
+-      target="1.5"
+ 			includes="**/*.java"
+ 			excludes="${excludes},**/bak/**"
+ 		>
+--- src/bsh/util/AWTConsole.java
++++ src/bsh/util/AWTConsole.java
+@@ -214,8 +214,6 @@
+ 		Great.  What a piece of crap.
+ 	*/
+ 	public void setCaretPosition( int pos ) {
+-		((java.awt.peer.TextComponentPeer)getPeer()).setCaretPosition( 
+-			pos + countNLs() );
+ 	}
+ 
+ 	/*