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authorStefan Bodewig <bodewig@apache.org>2020-08-10 18:12:53 +0200
committerStefan Bodewig <bodewig@apache.org>2020-08-10 18:12:53 +0200
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add some documentation about GraalVM JavaScript
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target="_top">https://www.ibm.com/software/awdtools/netrexx/library.html</a></td>
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- <td>rhino.jar<br/>(included in Java 7 runtime, replaced by Nashorn in Java&nbsp;8 and later)</td>
+ <td>rhino.jar<br/>(included in Java 7 runtime, replaced by Nashorn
+ in Java&nbsp;8 and later, dropped with Java 15)</td>
<td>JavaScript with <a href="Tasks/script.html">script</a> task<br/><strong>Note</strong>: Apache BSF 2.4.0 works
only with Rhino 1.5R4 and later versions.</td>
<td><a href="https://www.mozilla.org/rhino/" target="_top">https://www.mozilla.org/rhino/</a></td>
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<tr>
+ <td>graalvm js.jar and js-scriptengine.jar<br/></td>
+ <td>JavaScript with <a href="Tasks/script.html">script</a> task for Java 15 and later<br/>
+ </td>
+ <td>Java 15 has dropped Nashorn
+ and <a href="https://github.com/graalvm/graaljs">GraalVM JavaScript</a>
+ is meant to replace it - outside of the Java class
+ library.<br/>
+ <strong>Note</strong> GraalVM JavaScript is not a drop-in
+ replacement for Nashorn, see the script task documentation for
+ details. Also GraakVM JavaScript requires a couple of more
+ dependencies, in particular GraalVM regex, truffle, the GraalVM
+ SDK and ICU.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
<td>jython.jar</td>
<td>Python with <a href="Tasks/script.html">script</a> task</td>
<td><a href="https://www.jython.org/" target="_top">https://www.jython.org/</a></td>