Actually all modern browsers and standalone interpreters like node.js have a JIT compiler for JavaScript; and while Java's bytecode is still not a machine code

Actually all modern browsers and standalone interpreters like node.js have a JIT compiler for JavaScript; and while Java's bytecode is still not a machine code and is also JIT compiled by the Java "virtual machine", both languages are equally "scripting" or equally "non-scripting" (wherever you want to put the "scripting" line).