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1 - What is Nashorn?
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3 Nashorn is a runtime environment for programs written in ECMAScript 5.1
4 that runs on top of JVM.
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6 - How to find out more about ECMAScript 5.1?
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8 The specification can be found at
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10 http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-262.htm
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12 - How to checkout sources of Nashorn project?
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14 Nashorn project uses Mercurial source code control system. You can
15 download Mercurial from http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/Download
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17 Information about the forest extension can be found at
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19 http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ForestExtension
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21 and downlaoded using
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23 hg clone https://bitbucket.org/gxti/hgforest
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25 You can clone Nashorn Mercurial forest using this command:
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27 hg fclone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/nashorn/jdk8 nashorn~jdk8
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29 To update your copy of the forest (fwith the latest code:
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31 (cd nashorn~jdk8 ; hg fpull)
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33 Or just the nashorn subdirectory with
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35 (cd nashorn~jdk8/nashorn ; hg pull -u)
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37 To learn about Mercurial in detail, please visit http://hgbook.red-bean.com.
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39 - How to build?
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41 To build Nashorn, you need to install JDK 8. You may use the Nashorn
42 forest build (recommended) or down load from java.net. You will need to
43 set JAVA_HOME environmental variable to point to your JDK installation
44 directory.
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46 cd nashorn~jdk8/nashorn/make
47 ant clean; ant
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49 - How to run?
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51 Use the jjs script (see RELESE_README):
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53 cd nashorn~jdk8/nashorn
54 sh bin/jjs <your .js file>
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56 Nashorn supports javax.script API. It is possible to drop nashorn.jar in
57 class path and request for "nashorn" script engine from
58 javax.script.ScriptEngineManager.
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60 Look for samples under the directory test/src/jdk/nashorn/api/scripting/.
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62 - Documentation
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64 Comprehensive development documentation is found in the Nashorn JavaDoc. You can
65 build it using:
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67 cd nashorn~jdk8/nashorn/make
68 ant javadoc
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70 after which you can view the generated documentation at dist/javadoc/index.html.
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72 - Running tests
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74 Nashorn tests are TestNG based. Running tests requires downloading the
75 TestNG library and placing its jar file into the lib subdirectory:
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77 # download and install TestNG
78 wget http://testng.org/testng-x.y.z.zip
79 unzip testng-x.y.z.zip
80 cp testng-x.y.z/testng-x.y.z.jar test/lib/testng.jar
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82 After that, you can run the tests using:
83 cd make
84 ant clean test
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86 You can also run the ECMA-262 test suite with Nashorn. In order to do
87 that, you will need to get a copy of it and put it in
88 test/script/external/test262 directory. A convenient way to do it is:
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90 git clone https://github.com/tc39/test262 test/script/external/test262
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92 Alternatively, you can check it out elsewhere and make
93 test/script/external/test262 a symbolic link to that directory. After
94 you've done this, you can run the ECMA-262 tests using:
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96 cd nashorn~jdk8/nashorn/make
97 ant test262
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99 Ant target to get/update external test suites:
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101 ant externals
102 ant update-externals
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104 These tests take time, so we have a parallelized runner for them that
105 takes advantage of all processor cores on the computer:
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107 cd nashorn~jdk8/nashorn/make
108 ant test262parallel
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110 - How to write your own test?
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112 Nashorn uses it's own simple test framework. Any .js file dropped under
113 nashorn/test directory is considered as a test. A test file can
114 optionally have .js.EXPECTED (foo.js.EXPECTED for foo.js) associated
115 with it. The .EXPECTED file, if exists, should contain the output
116 expected from compiling and/or running the test file.
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118 The test runner crawls these directories for .js files and looks for
119 JTReg-style @foo comments to identify tests.
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121 * @test - A test is tagged with @test.
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123 * @test/fail - Tests that are supposed to fail (compiling, see @run/fail
124 for runtime) are tagged with @test/fail.
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126 * @test/compile-error - Test expects compilation to fail, compares
127 output.
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129 * @test/warning - Test expects compiler warnings, compares output.
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131 * @test/nocompare - Test expects to compile [and/or run?]
132 successfully(may be warnings), does not compare output.
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134 * @subtest - denotes necessary file for a main test file; itself is not
135 a test.
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137 * @run - A test that should be run is also tagged with @run (otherwise
138 the test runner only compiles the test).
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140 * @run/fail - A test that should compile but fail with a runtime error.
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142 * @run/ignore-std-error - script may produce output on stderr, ignore
143 this output.
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145 * @argument - pass an argument to script.
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147 * @option \ - pass option to engine, sample.
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149 /**
150 * @option --dump-ir-graph
151 * @test
152 */

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