Nashorn

Links

Main blog https://blogs.oracle.com/nashorn/ by Jim Laskey

Sources: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/nashorn/jdk8/nashorn

Old and excited blog post: http://kaeff.net/posts/why-ruby-and-nodejs-folks-should-care-about-project-nashorn.html

If you use JavaFX inside JavaScript, you should use SDK, not just JRE.

Java 8 script utils

Java 8 goes with 2 utils: jjs for running JavaScript on Nashorn engine and jrunscript for running any script engine

jjs command line util


C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0\bin>jjs.exe -v

nashorn 1.8.0


C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0\bin>jjs.exe -h

jjs []  [-- ]
        -D (-Dname=value. Set a system property. This option can be repeated.)

        -cp, -classpath (-cp path. Specify where to find user class files.)

        -doe, -dump-on-error (Dump a stack trace on errors.)
                param: [true|false]   default: false

        -fv, -fullversion (Print full version info of Nashorn.)
                param: [true|false]   default: false

        -fx (Launch script as an fx application.)
                param: [true|false]   default: false

        -h, -help (Print help for command line flags.)
                param: [true|false]   default: false

        -scripting (Enable scripting features.)
                param: [true|false]   default: false

        -strict (Run scripts in strict mode.)
                param: [true|false]   default: false

        -t, -timezone (Set timezone for script execution.)
                param:    default: Asia/Shanghai

        -v, -version (Print version info of Nashorn.)
                param: [true|false]   default: false

jrunscript command line util


C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0\bin>jrunscript.exe  -h
Usage: jrunscript [options] [arguments...]

where [options] include:
  -classpath     Specify where to find user class files
  -cp            Specify where to find user class files
  -D=     Set a system property
  -J             Pass  directly to the runtime system
  -l         Use specified scripting language
  -e