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Nashorn - Running Javascript Dynamically from Java
Last night we talked about running Javascript dynamically from Java. Java 8 includes Nashorn. Adam Davis describes Nashorn in his new book on Java 8:
https://leanpub.com/whatsnewinjava8/read#leanpub-auto-nashorn
"Nashorn replaces Rhino as the default JavaScript engine for the Oracle JVM. Nashorn is much faster since it uses the invokedynamic feature of the JVM. It also includes a command line tool (jjs)"
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Permalink Reply by Chris Schaefer on
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I've played around with calling JavaScript from within Java -- but only really on toy projects. Would be interesting to hear peoples real world use cases deployed to production.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Levin on
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Chris, There's an article in Java mag about various scenarios using Nashorn. http://www.oraclejavamagazine-digital.com/javamagazine/jan_feb_2014... It also shows how to call Java from within Nashorn.
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Very cool -- Thanks for the link!
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Happy 10th year, JCertif!
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