Nashorn (JavaScript engine)

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Nashorn
Developer(s) Oracle Corporation
Development status Active
Written in Java
Operating system Cross-platform
Platform Java Virtual Machine
Type JavaScript engine
License GPL with a linking exception
Website {{#property:P856}}

Nashorn is a JavaScript engine developed in the Java programming language by Oracle. It is based on the Da Vinci Machine (JSR 292) and has been released with Java 8.[1][2][3]

The project was announced first at the JVM language summit in July 2011,[4][5] and then confirmed at JavaOne in October 2011.[6]

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 embedding JavaScript in Java applications via JSR-223 and to develop standalone JavaScript applications.[7] On December 21, 2012, Oracle announced Nashorn source was publicly released in the OpenJDK repository.[8]

Name

Nashorn [ˈnaːsˌhɔɐ̯n] ("nahss-horn") is the German translation of rhinoceros, a play on words on Rhino, the name of a JavaScript engine implemented in Java and provided by Mozilla Foundation. The latter gets its name from the animal on the cover of the JavaScript book from O'Reilly Media.[9]

Performance

According to Oracle benchmarks, Nashorn performance is several orders of magnitude faster than the old Rhino Javascript engine.[10]

Limitations

There are no browser APIs such as:[citation needed]

  • HTML5 canvas
  • HTML5 audio
  • WebWorkers
  • WebSockets
  • WebGL

See also

References

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External links

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