Nashorn (JavaScript engine): Difference between revisions

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}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk8-dev/2013-April/002336.html |title=Proposed new schedule for Java 8 |date=2013-04-18 |accessdateaccess-date=2013-04-19}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk8/ |title=JDK 8 |publisher=OpenJDK |date=2013-04-18 |accessdateaccess-date=2013-04-19}}</ref>

The project was announced first at the JVM language summit in July 2011,<ref>{{cite web

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| title=JVM Language Summit: Moving Java Forward, aka ‘Pointy haired manager talk’

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On November 21, 2012, Oracle formally announced the [[open sourcing]] of the Nashorn source on the [[OpenJDK]] repository. The project aim will be to allow embedding JavaScript in Java applications via [[Scripting for the Java Platform|JSR-223]] and to develop standalone JavaScript applications.<ref>{{cite web

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| quote=''I hereby propose the creation of the Nashorn Project with Jim Laskey as the Lead and HotSpot group as the sponsoring Group. In accordance with the OpenJDK guidelines [1], we would like to start a new project to implement a lightweight high-performance JavaScript runtime in Java with a native JVM''

| accessdateaccess-date=2012-11-24}}</ref> On December 21, 2012, Oracle announced Nashorn source was publicly released in the [[OpenJDK]] repository.<ref>{{cite web

| url=https://blogs.oracle.com/nashorn/entry/open_for_business

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It provides a 100% support of ECMAScript 5.1.<ref>https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/12/docs/api/jdk.scripting.nashorn/module-summary.html</ref>

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| title=JEP 335: Deprecate the Nashorn JavaScript Engine

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| accessdateaccess-date=2018-09-25}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/372 |title=JEP 372: Remove the Nashorn JavaScript Engine |date=2020-01-10 |accessdateaccess-date=2020-07-22}}</ref> GraalJS from the [[GraalVM]] project was suggested as a replacement.

==Name==

[[wikt:Nashorn|''Nashorn'']] {{IPA-de|ˈnaːsˌhɔɐ̯n|}} ("nahss-horn") is the German translation of [[rhinoceros]], a play on words on [[Rhino (JavaScript engine)|Rhino]], the name of a JavaScript engine implemented in Java and provided by [[Mozilla Foundation]]. The latter gets its name from the animal on the cover of the JavaScript book from [[O'Reilly Media]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jscript5/ |title=JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, 5th Edition |publisher=O'Reilly Media, Inc |accessdateaccess-date=2012-01-31}}</ref>

== Performance ==

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==See also==