Developer(s) | Oracle Corporation |
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Written in | Java |
Operating system | Cross-platform |
Platform | Java Virtual Machine |
Type | JavaScript engine |
License | GPL with a linking exception |
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]
It provides a 100% support of ECMAScript 5.1.[9]
With the release of Java 11, Nashorn is deprecated, and has been removed from JDK 15 onwards.[10][11] GraalJS from the GraalVM project was suggested as a replacement.
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.[12]
According to Oracle benchmarks, Nashorn performance is several orders of magnitude faster than the alternative Rhino JavaScript engine.[13]
I hereby propose the creation of the Nashorn Project with Jim Laskey as the Lead and HotSpot group as the sponsoring Group. In accordance with the OpenJDK guidelines [1], we would like to start a new project to implement a lightweight high-performance JavaScript runtime in Java with a native JVM
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