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.

The JavaScript is still working behind the scenes. Essentially, we get a more granular HTML syntax, which can just load segments instead of whole pages, and can submit Ajax requests.

Why Is Java Important?. Java is one of the most popular programming languages used to create Web applications and platforms. It was designed for flexibility, allowing developers to write code that ...

For many coding students, HTML, CSS, Python, Java, JavaScript, C and Ruby are among the easiest programming languages to learn.

First of all, JavaScript is not Java. It has nothing to do with Java (The language and its associated technologies from Sun Microsystems). To be honest, I'm not even sure why it's called JavaScript.

PayPal has decided to use JavaScript from browser all the way to the back-end server for web applications, giving up legacy code written in JSP/Java.

It's a bit unclear what you mean when you say "what can I do". If you're referring to specific language features that are available to Java or C++ that are not available to JavaScript, it would be ...