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// Obtain an instance of JavaScript engine ScriptEngineManager manager = new ScriptEngineManager(); ScriptEngine engine = manager.getEngineByName("nashorn"); // Define a global variable engine.put("textToPrint", "Data defined in Java."); // Print the global var...

// Obtain an instance of JavaScript engine ScriptEngineManager manager = new ScriptEngineManager(); ScriptEngine engine = manager.getEngineByName("nashorn"); // Execute an hardcoded script try { engine.eval("print('Hello Nashorn!');"); } catch (ScriptException ex) { ...

// Required imports import javax.script.ScriptEngineManager; import javax.script.ScriptEngine; import javax.script.ScriptException; import java.io.FileReader; import java.io.FileNotFoundException; // Obtain an instance of the JavaScript engine ScriptEngineManager manager = new ScriptEngineM...

// Obtain an instance of JavaScript engine ScriptEngineManager manager = new ScriptEngineManager(); ScriptEngine engine = manager.getEngineByName("nashorn"); // Setup a custom writer StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter(); // Modify the engine context so that the custom writ...

// Obtain an instance of JavaScript engine ScriptEngineManager manager = new ScriptEngineManager(); ScriptEngine engine = manager.getEngineByName("JavaScript"); //String to be evaluated String str = "3+2*4+5"; //Value after doing Arithmetic operation with operator preceden...

It's possible to pass Java objects to Nashorn engine to be processed in Java code. At the same time, there are some JavaScript (and Nashorn) specific constructions, and it's not always clear how they work with java objects. Below there is a table which describes behaviour of native Java objects ins...

import java.io.FileReader; import java.io.IOException; import javax.script.ScriptEngine; import javax.script.ScriptEngineManager; import javax.script.ScriptException; public class InterfaceImplementationExample { public static interface Pet { public void eat(); } p...

// Obtain an instance of JavaScript engine ScriptEngineManager manager = new ScriptEngineManager(); ScriptEngine engine = manager.getEngineByName("nashorn"); try { // Set value in the global name space of the engine engine.put("name","Nashorn"); // E...