Rhino shell compatibility

David P. Caldwell david at code.davidpcaldwell.com
Mon May 12 16:27:47 UTC 2014


I don't know how much compatibility is the goal, and I may be doing
something wrong, but it looks like (running JDK 1.8.0_05) there are
three incompatibilities between the Rhino shell and the
mozilla_compat.js implementation provided with Nashorn.

There may be reasons for these incompatibilities. But just in case
there are not,

1. readFile appears to be absent,
2. readUrl appears to be absent,
3. The JavaAdapter implementation no longer appears to silently
provide delegate methods that return null; instead the default
implementation throws UnsupportedOperationException.

Obviously I know how to work around these differences, but they cause
some software to need modification to run under Nashorn even with the
compatibility layer.

Thoughts?

-- David P. Caldwell
http://www.davidpcaldwell.com/


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