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{{Short description|Deprecated JavaScript engine developed innin Java by Oracle}}

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'''Nashorn''' is a deprecated [[JavaScript engine]] developed in the [[Java (programming language)|Java]] programming language originally by [[Oracle Corporation|Oracle]] and later by the OpenJDK Community. It isrelies basedon the support for dynamically typed languages on the Java Platform (JSR 292) (a concept first realized in the experimental [[Da Vinci Machine]] (JSRand 292)a standard part of Java 7 and later.) Nashorn has been included with [[Java 8]] through JDK 14.<ref>{{cite web

| url=http://www.wiki.jvmlangsummit.com/images/c/ce/Nashorn.pdf

| title=Adventures in JSR-292 or How To Be A Duck Without Really Trying

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It provides a 100% support of ECMAScript 5.1.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/12/docs/api/jdk.scripting.nashorn/module-summary.html|title = Java Platform, Standard Edition Java API Reference}}</ref> It was the first JavaScript implementation to achieve 100% pass rate on the ECMAScript 5.1 test suite.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/asz/status/258995374847565825|title = Tweet showing all ECMAScript 5.1 tests passing on the screen of a Nashorn developers' computer}}</ref>

With the release of Java 11, Nashorn iswas deprecated citing challenges to maintenance, and has been removed from JDK 15 onwards.<ref>{{cite web

| url=http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/335

| title=JEP 335: Deprecate the Nashorn JavaScript Engine

| date=2017-07-17

| access-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 |access-date=2020-07-22}}</ref> GraalJS from the [[GraalVM]] project was suggested as a replacement.

Nashorn development [https://github.com/openjdk/nashorn continues on GitHub] underas a thestandalone [https://openjdk.java.net/projects/nashorn/ OpenJDK project] and the [https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.openjdk.nashorn/nashorn-core separate release] can be used in Java project from Java 11 and up.

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==External links==

*{{OfficialGitHub project page website|blogs.oraclehttps://github.com/openjdk/nashorn/}}

*{{Oracle blog (mostly defunct) |https://blogs.oracle.com/nashorn/}}

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