Scripting Java with Rhino

Rhino is a JavaScript interpreter written in Java and designed to make it easy to write JavaScript programs that leverage the power of the Java platform APIs. Rhino automatically handles the conversion of JavaScript primitives to Java primitives, and vice versa, so JavaScript scripts can set and query Java properties and invoke Java methods.

Rhino defines a handful of important global functions that are not part of core JavaScript:

// Embedding-specific globals: Type help() at the rhino prompt for more
print(x);           // Global print function prints to the console
version(170);       // Tell Rhino we want JS 1.7 language features
load(filename,...); // Load and execute one or more files of JavaScript code
readFile(file);     // Read a text file and return its contents as a string
readUrl(url);       // Read the ...

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