New candidate JEP: 335: Deprecate the Nashorn JavaScript Engine

[Attila Szegedi]

On 2018. Jun 12., at 16:55, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
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> […]
> If a set of credible developers expresses a clear desire to maintain
> Nashorn after JDK 11 then all of us who work on this code base will find
> a way to make that happen.  Maybe Nashorn stays in the JDK, or maybe it’s
> removed from the JDK and maintained in some other OpenJDK Project and
> published to Maven Central, or maybe some completely different approach
> is taken.  Exactly what happens depends, mostly, on who shows up.
> 
> So ... any takers?

I have expressed previously that I am willing to keep maintaining Dynalink, and that I believe it needs to stay in the JDK in order to be effective. John Rose seemed to agree in an earlier reply in this thread.

It’d be great if we could conceptually unbundle Dynalink from Nashorn for the purpose of this discussion. (For historical reasons, its source code is colocated with Nashorn's, but it can be easily moved elsewhere and there’s no technical reason for keeping it there.)

Attila.

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> - Mark
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> [1] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/335
> [2] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-gc-dev/2016-July/018545.html