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
).
jjs
JDK 8 includes the command line tool jjs for running JavaScript.
We can run JavaScript files from the command line (assuming we have Java 8’s bin in our PATH
) in the following manner:
$ jjs script.js
Try running jjs
in the terminal below:
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