(Adopt)OpenJDK 8 and Nashorn

Jim Laskey james.laskey at oracle.com
Thu May 23 13:19:55 UTC 2019


Nashorn is part of the JDK, so should be present. Note however, Nashorn is deprecated until a replacement finds its way in.

Cheers,

-- Jim

> On May 23, 2019, at 9:48 AM, Houtman, Roland <Roland.Houtman at nl.yokogawa.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear Devs,
> 
> Today I learned by surprise that the AdoptOpenJDK 8 contains the Nashorn Javascript engine.
> Glad that Nashorn is included!
> 
> But I thought that both the WebView(HTML5-browser) and the Nashorn-engine were part of the JavaFX project. And that only the Oracle JDK8 contains JavaFX.
> 
> So just to make sure;
> Do all the OpenJDK flavours-builds include the Nashorn engine, or is there more to it?
> 
> Kind regards,
> Roland



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