Also, JavaScript has lacked a standard library of routine system functions, in contrast to more systems-oriented languages such as C or Java. The CommonJS project seeks to address these issues.

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.

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