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Published in Apr 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788832823

Length 910 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

HTTP

Concepts

Application Development

Authors (3):

Dr. Edward Lavieri Jr.

Jason Lee

Peter Verhas

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Table of Contents (33) Chapters

Title Page - Courses

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Preface

1. The Java 9 Landscape FREE CHAPTER

2. Discovering Java 9

3. Java 9 Language Enhancements

4. Building Modular Applications with Java 9

5. Migrating Applications to Java 9

6. Experimenting with the Java Shell

7. Leveraging the New Default G1 Garbage Collector

8. Microbenchmarking Applications with JMH

9. Making Use of the ProcessHandle API

10. Fine-Grained Stack Tracing

11. New Tools and Tool Enhancements

12. Concurrency and Reactive Programming

13. Security Enhancements

14. Command Line Flags

15. Best Practices In Java 9

16. Future Directions

17. Introduction

18. Managing Processes in Java

19. Duplicate File Finder

20. Date Calculator

21. Sunago - A Social Media Aggregator

22. Sunago - An Android Port

23. Email and Spam Management with MailFilter

24. Photo Management with PhotoBeans

25. Taking Notes with Monumentum

26. Serverless Java

27. DeskDroid - A Desktop Client for Your Android Phone

28. What is Next?

1. Bibliography

Index

Parser API for Nashorn [JEP-236]

The focus of JEP 236 was to create an API for Nashorn's EMCAScript abstract syntax tree. In this section, we will individually look at Nashorn, EMCAScript and then the Parser API.

Nashorn

Oracle Nashorn is a JavaScript engine for the JVM developed in Java by Oracle. It was released with Java 8. It was created to provide developers with a highly efficiently and lightweight JavaScript runtime engine. Using this engine, developers were able to embed JavaScript code in their Java applications. Prior to Java 8, developers had access to the JavaScript engine created by Netscape. That engine, introduced in 1997, was maintained by Mozilla.

Nashorn can be used both as a command-line tool and as an embedded interpreter in Java applications. Let's look at examples of both.

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Nashorn is the German word for rhinoceros. The name spawned from the Rhino-named JavaScript engine from the Mozilla Foundation. Rhino is said to have originated from the picture of the animal on a...

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