Nashorn (JavaScript engine): Difference between revisions

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| last=Laskey|first=James

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| accessdate=2011-07-24}}</ref>.

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

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| date=2011-07-19

| publisher=[[Oracle Corporation]]

| accessdate=2011-07-24}}</ref> and then confirmed at [[JavaOne]] in October 2011.<ref>{{cite web

| url=http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/oracle-prepping-its-nashorn-javascript-engine-175159

| title=Oracle prepping its Nashorn JavaScript engine

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| date=2011-10-05

| publisher=[[InfoWorld]]

| accessdate=2011-10-08}}</ref>.

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 to embed JavaScript in Java applications via [[Scripting for the Java Platform|JSR-223]] and to develop standalone JavaScript applications.<ref>{{cite web

| url=http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/announce/2012-November/000139.html

| title=CFV: New Project: Nashorn

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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''

| accessdate=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

| title=Open for business

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| date=2012-12-21

| publisher=[[Oracle Corporation]]

| accessdate=2012-12-21}}</ref>.

==Etymology==