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JavaScript engine written in Java

Rhino is a JavaScript engine to run the JavaScript programming language, but hosted on a Java virtual machine (JVM). Rhino is written fully in Java language and managed by the Mozilla Foundation as free and open-source software. It is separate from the SpiderMonkey engine, which is also developed by Mozilla, but written in the C++ language and used in the Firefox web browser. Wikipedia →

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