JavaScript on the JVM is better and faster but not always friendlier with Nashorn, the rebuilt JavaScript interpreter. Martin Heller takes the new Rhino's two command-line script runners for a ...

JavaScript scripts can be created in any text editor, such as Notepad and WordPad, but must be saved with a ".js" extension to be functional.

Create a variable in the JavaScript tags to initialize an ActiveX object that can run commands through a command line: Add another line inside the script tags to run a desktop application.