On June 30, Netscape Vice President Marc Andreessen made it clear that development of “Javagator” — the company’s much-ballyhooed all-Java version of its flagship Web browse… ...

JavaScript engines like Rhino and Nashorn run JavaScript inside your Java application where you can link to it. If you’re really ambitious, you can link in Google’s V8 engine.

JavaScript syntax in many ways is actually more like Java’s than some of these languages, but its prototype-based approach to object-orientation is very different.

Sorry to be doubly redundant, but it is amazing how many people, including industry insiders, don’t understand the difference between Java and JavaScript. Here’s the low-down. Java, dev… ...