CHAPTER 4
Writing Scripts in Nashorn
In this chapter, you will learn:
- How to write scripts in Nashorn
- The difference between running the script in strict mode and nonstrict mode
- How to declare variables and write comments
- Primitive and object data types, and how to convert values of one data type to another data type
- Operators, statements, and creating and invoking functions in Nashorn
- Different ways of creating and using objects
- Variable scoping and hoisting
- About built-in global objects and functions
Nashorn is a runtime implementation of the ECMAScript 5.1 specification on the JVM. ECMAScript defines its own syntax and constructs for declaring ...
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