How can I include Rhino in the build

[Erik Trimble]

On 6/2/2011 6:12 PM, Charles Lee wrote:
> On 06/02/2011 11:45 PM, Erik Trimble wrote:
>> On 6/2/2011 3:18 AM, Charles Lee wrote:
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>> I have checkout the mercurial forest from 
>>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7/. But I can not have Rhino in 
>>> the build. Do I miss any repository?
>>>
>>
>> If you are referring to Mozilla's Rhino 
>> (http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/), that is a completely separate piece 
>> of software, and has no relation to the OpenJDK project.  It is not 
>> hosted on the openjdk servers.  It is not needed to build OpenJDK.
>>
>> If you are interested in Rhino, you do NOT have to build the JDK from 
>> scratch - you can use a pre-build OpenJDK binary.
>>
> Hi Erik,
>
> I am confused that the default javascript engine (Rhino) is included 
> in the pre-build openjdk binary, but is not included in my local 
> build. I was trying to do a find to search the classes[1], but classes 
> are not in the repository. So I was wonder maybe I was missing some 
> mercurial repos.
>
> Do you mean that openjdk default javascript engine is not the mozilla 
> Rhino? (Sorry for the stupid question :-)
>
> I met this problem during I was trying to run the script demo in the 
> demo/scripting/jconsole-plugin. The pre-build openjdk binary, 
> downloaded from the website, run it well. But local build from 
> mercurial repo threw a exception, said "Can not find javascript engine".
>
>
> [1] classes are : 
> sun.org.mozilla.javascript.internal.InterpretedFunction, 
> sun.org.mozilla.javascript.internal.ScriptRuntime, etc

Yes, those are NOT part of OpenJDK, those classes are part of the ORACLE 
JDK. Not all portions of the Oracle JDK have been opened (for a variety 
of reasons).

The OpenJDK project includes a Javascript engine: javax.script. You 
would have to download the Rhino package seperately, and build it if you 
wanted that particular engine.  Take a look at the IcedTea project 
(http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions)  for more 
information about how to use the OpenJDK project and other associated 
project to create a work-alike for the Oracle JDK.


The Demos stuff isn't maintained at all, and frankly shouldn't be part 
of the JDK distribution.  In your case, it's using a private Oracle-only 
implementation, which is completely wrong for portable code, and why it 
breaks when being used with anything other than the Oracle JDK.





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