Riding the Nashorn: Programming JavaScript on the JVMNashorn is the official JavaScript Engine in the Java Virtual Machine since Version 8. It supports and implements the ECMAScript 5.1 specification and competes among others directly with Google V8 (the script engine behind Node.js). Nashorn compiles JavaScript to Java Bytecode during runtime and thus provides high interoperability of Java and JavaScript. In this script I want to dig into some of t
