While ES6 does add some interesting features to the language, people have done useful work in server-side well before ES6 came along.
Java 8 contained Nashorn with ES5 support. Java 6 & 7 contained the Rhino JavaScript engine (although at what level of Javascript, I forget at the moment). You could also use the external Rhino Jars if you needed a version later than the embedded Rhino version. I remember being surprised several years ago at how well JavaScript (using Rhino) ran on z/OS. Scott Chapman On Fri, 23 Feb 2018 14:16:18 +0800, David Crayford <dcrayf...@gmail.com> wrote: >Java 9 comes with an ES6 compliant Nashorn JavaScript engine >https://www.oracle.com/corporate/features/nashorn-javascript-engine-jdk9.html. >ES6 is essential as it >turns JavaScript into a reasonable language. Those poor souls without a >zIIP might be a bit gun shy of running Java though! > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
