archimatetool/archi-scripting-plugin

Remove Nashorn or bundle it?

Phillipus opened this issue · 4 comments

Phillipus commented
  • The Nashorn script engine is old now and is removed from Java > 15
  • Archi ships with Java 11 which includes Nashorn so jArchi can use Nashorn bundled with Java
  • We ship the GraalVM script engine with jArchi which is far superior
  • Archi 5 will be built with and bundled with Java 17 (see archimatetool/archi#867) so Nashorn will not be available as part of Java

However there is a stand-alone version of Nashorn that we could bundle with jArchi if required.

But does anyone still use Nashorn given that GraalVM is superior?

smileham commented

I have an issue in one of my scripts "Export to Markdown" which fails in GraalVM with the following error:

Script Error: javax.script.ScriptException: org.graalvm.polyglot.PolyglotException: TypeError: escape.replaceAll is not a function

However, this works fine in Nashorn...

It's something that I need to debug, but haven't found the time to look at yet...

Phillipus commented

That script will work with the coming version of jArchi 1.3 because it will have latest GraalVM.

smileham commented

Awesome! I look forward to the update :D

Phillipus commented

I've created a separate Nashorn plug-in for jArchi. This will be made available as an optional download after Archi 5 is released.