Questions ad JavaScript in JavaFX' WebEngine

[Rony G. Flatscher]

On 09.05.2020 17:23, Kevin Rushforth wrote:
> WebEngine uses WebKit's JavaScriptCore as its JavaScript engine. The sources are in the jfx repo,
> along with the JavaFX-specific classes that implement the two-way Java <--> JavaScript bridge.
> Other than the public API docs for WebEngine, which you referred to in your message, there isn't
> any documentation of the interface. 

OK, thank you very much, this is reassuring! :)

> What sort of information are you looking for?

Well, as event handlers and script tags in HTML have a type attribute that allows to denote script
languages other than JavaScript, I am interested in evaluating what WebEngine/WebView allows for to
support this with any of the Java script engines.

---rony


> On 5/8/2020 7:01 AM, Rony G. Flatscher wrote:
>> Wondering which JavaScript engine gets referred to in WebEngine [1].
>>
>> In case it is currently (JavaFX 14) Nashorn [2], what happens after Nashorn gets removed from the
>> next [3] version? In case it is WebKit's JavaScriptCore [4] where can one study the interface from
>> WebEngine to it?
>>
>> ---rony
>>
>> [1] WebEngine: <https://openjfx.io/javadoc/14/javafx.web/javafx/scene/web/class-use/WebEngine.html>
>> [2] Nashorn: <https://openjdk.java.net/projects/nashorn/>
>> [3] Nashorn removal from JDK 15: <https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/372>
>> [4] JavaScriptCore: <https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/JavaScriptCore>