While Java and JavaScript share the word "Java" in their names and are both programming/scripting languages, their similarities essentially end there. These two languages are fundamentally distinct in ...

Netscape wanted to capitalize on the hype surrounding java when it was introduced (JavaScript was originally called LiveScript).<BR><BR>JavaScript is often used for client side web development tasks.

To call Nashorn JavaScript from a Java 8 program, you basically need to make a new ScriptEngineManager instance and use that ScriptEngineManager to load the Nashorn script engine by name.