Oracle Proposes New Native JavaScript Engine for OpenJDK 80
hypnosec writes "Oracle has proposed a new project for OpenJDK — Nashorn, which aims to implement a high-performance yet lightweight JavaScript runtime that would run on the JVM natively. Nashorn will be headed by Jim Laskey, multi-language Lead at Oracle and the project will be sponsored by HotSpot group. The project proposes an implementation of JavaScript such that it can run standalone JavaScript applications via the JSR 223 APIs. Nashorn's design will enable it to take advantage of new JVM technologies like the MethodHandles and the InvokeDynamic APIs."
Re:Don't let them patent it! (Score:5, Informative)
There have also been standalone javascript engines running on the JVM; the best-developed is Rhino [mozilla.org] from Mozilla.
Re:Don't let them patent it! (Score:1, Informative)
And we have known this since July 2011 (Score:5, Informative)
This was first discussed in July 2011 at the JVM Language Summit [jvmlangsummit.com] (PDF) link. It was discussed at the most recent JavaOne, and there have been more than a few articles about it.
Nashorn is German for Rhinocerus (Score:5, Informative)
Thought people should know
What's different is that they're opening it (Score:5, Informative)
As the actual proposal [java.net] notes, while Project Nashorn has been in the works within Oracle for some time, what they're doing now is proposing to make it part of OpenJDK, to get more people working on it so that the code can be tightened up for production use.