It wasn't touched on in this document, but I think more people should hear about Nashorn. It is the new JavaScript Engine that, I believe, supports ES 5.1. It a

It wasn't touched on in this document, but I think more people should hear about Nashorn. It is the new JavaScript Engine that, I believe, supports ES 5.1. It allows you to do some pretty neat things with Java/JavaScript interacting in the same VM. Java 9 is planning on supporting ES6 <source needed>. You can see an introduction on this Oracle documentation: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/scripting/nashorn/api.html https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/scrip...