Running Nashorn

[Jim Laskey (Oracle)]

I'm filing a bug against AppleScriptEngine.jar.  Other than removing it, there is no long term fix.  BTW, if you do need AppleScript you can do it from Nashorn; https://blogs.oracle.com/nashorn/entry/playing_itunes_from_nashorn .

Cheers,

-- Jim




On 2013-08-07, at 12:26 PM, Kasper Nielsen <kasperni at gmail.com> wrote:

> My code is pretty simple:
> 
> import javax.script.ScriptEngineManager;
> 
> public class EngineTest {
>     public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
>         new ScriptEngineManager();
>         Thread.sleep(100000);
>     }
> }
> > Javac EngineTest.java
> > Java EngineTest
> -> A window pops up.
> 
> AppleScriptEngine.jar installed in /System/Library/Java/Extensions seems to be the culprit.
> If I remove it I do no window pops up. (/System/Library/Java/Extensions is on the default extension path)
> 
> I'm pretty sure AppleScriptEngine.jar comes whenever you install Apples Java distribution.
> It is dated "3 Sep  2011 AppleScriptEngine.jar"
> 
> - Kasper
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Jim Laskey (Oracle) <james.laskey at oracle.com> wrote:
>  All Macs have that (I use a Mac).  I don't run into that problem though.  So you are walking through the engines list?
> 
>