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 ...

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.

Oracle has officially proposed the Nashorn Project, an implementation of a lightweight, high-performance JavaScript runtime for Java, as a new project for OpenJDK.

As this image demonstrates, the Mozilla Rhino JavaScript engine is included with Sun’s Java SE 6. We also see some “common names” that are associated with this particular engine.

Google has issued a patch for a vulnerability in its Chrome browser that is being actively exploited in the wild. Search giant Google has been forced to patch yet another zero-day in its Chrome ...

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 has announced a new JavaScript engine for Opera 10, which should vastly improve performance - and get it closer to first place in the SunSpider benchmark tests.

Microsoft announced it will open source the JavaScript engine for the new Edge web browser released with Windows 10.