Rather than simply modify the Rhino JavaScript engine now shipping with the Java Development Kit, Oracle opted to start its own faster JavaScript engine, based on the ECMAScript 262 standard ...

Oracle announced via JDK Enhancement Proposal (JEP) 355 that the Nashorn JavaScript Engine will be deprecated and eventually removed from all future Java Development Kits (JDKs). With the rapid pace ...

JSR-223, better known as "Scripting for the Java Platform," is independent of specific scripters. It was included in the Java SE 6 platform release. Oracle announced last week that Nashorn, which ...

Java SE 6 makes it simple to use JavaScript within Java code. Other scripting engines can also be associated with Java, but it is handy to have one provided out-of-the-box with Mozilla Rhino.

To call Nashorn JavaScript from a Java 8 program, you basically need to make a new ScriptEngineManager instance and use that ScriptEngineManager to load the Nashorn script engine by name.

One might imagine, what is the point of having a JavaScript engine written in a traditionally slow language such as JavaScript itself? We don’t want to delude you into thinking that everything ...

The WebKit team has been busy. Publicly announcing a brand new JavaScript engine release, amusingly named SquirrelFish Extreme (nicknamed SFX), they're already boasting performance gains twice as ...

Opera announced its answer to the JavaScript engine race Monday. The JavaScript engine is in its early stages, but promises to improve JavaScript processing performance in the Opera browser ...

Microsoft wrote the Chakra JavaScript engine from scratch, using the most current Java technologies to give Edge a major performance boost over the aging Internet Explorer line. At the JSConf show ...

Today has been Internet Explorer 9 's turn to take to the stage, with the focus on hardware-accelerated HTML5, a new JavaScript engine and Direct 2D technology.