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Java 9: Building Robust Modular Applications
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Java 9: Building Robust Modular Applications

by Dr. Edward Lavieri, Peter Verhas, Jason Lee
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
910 pages
33h 21m
English
Packt Publishing
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Using Nashorn as an embedded interpreter

A more common use of Nashorn, compared to using it as a command-line tool, is using it as an embedded interpreter. The javax.script API is public and can be accessed via the nashorn identifier. The following code demonstrates how we can gain access to Nashorn, define a JavaScript function, and obtain the results--all from within a Java application:

    // required imports    import javax.script.ScriptEngine;    import javax.script.ScriptEngineManager;    public class EmbeddedAddTest     {      public static void main(String[] args) throws Throwable      {        // instantiate a new ScriptEngineManager        ScriptEngineManager myEngineManager =          new ScriptEngineManager();        // instantiate a new Nashorn ScriptEngine        ScriptEngine myEngine ...
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