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Kaspersky Labs Uncover Java Exploit in the Red October Malware
The investigating agency Kaspersky Labs uncovered in mid January that the Red October attackers used the Rhino exploit in Java as an additional delivery vector.
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Nashorn Voted In as a Successor to Rhino in the OpenJDK Project
The current OpenJDK members have voted Oracle's Project Nashorn, a new JVM-based JavaScript implementation, as a successor to Rhino which is the current JVM JavaScript implementation. Nashorn is due for release with Java 8 in late 2013. It allows JavaScript to be embedded in Java applications and to develop standalone JavaScript applications.
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Nashorn Proposed as Replacement JavaScript Engine for OpenJDK
Oracle's multi-language lead Jim Laskey has proposed a new JVM-based JavaScript implementation, Nashorn, as an OpenJDK project.
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Community-Driven Research: What's Your Next JVM Language?
InfoQ's research initiative continues with an 12th question: "What's Your Next JVM Language?". This is a new service we hope will provide you with up-to-date & bias-free community-based insight into trends & behaviors that affect enterprise software development. Unlike traditional vendor/analyst-based research, our research is based on answers provided by YOU.
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InvokeDynamic and Javascript: New Compiler Dyn.js, Oracle Nashorn and Rhino
Dyn.js is a new implementation of Javascript for Java. It makes use of Java 7's new features for dynamic languages (invokedynamic, Method Handles). InfoQ talked to dyn.js creator Douglas Campos about the reasons to create another Javascript for the JVM (next to Rhino and the announced Oracle Nashorn) and implementation details of dyn.js.
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Rhino is About to Get a Lot Faster
Charles Nutter of JRuby fame recently started assisting the Rhino project (Java implementation of JavaScript) to speed up the Rhino JavaScript runtime.
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AppengineJS, a JavaScript Port of the Google App Engine Python SDK
AppengineJS is an open source JavaScript port of the Google App Engine Python SDK helpful to create web applications that can be deployed on GAE infrastructure accessing Google’s persistent storage and services.
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Interview: Attila Szegedi Discusses Rhino
In this interview, Attila Szegedi discusses the Rhino JavaScript engine. Topics covered include the implementation of Rhino, Rhino's featureset, continuations, usage patterns for embedding Rhino, running JavaScript on the server, scripting capabilities for Rhino, JavaScript versus Ruby, JavaScript on Rails, and future plans for Rhino.
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Further Insights into Rhino on Rails
Dion Almaer has published a podcast of his interview with Steve Yegge, the creator of Rhino on Rails. Rhino on Rails is a Javascript port of the popular Ruby on Rails framework. It is currently under active development for internal use at Google. Steve Yegge and his team hope to make Rhino on Rails open source this summer.
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Rhino Mocks 3.3 is Ready
The latest version of the very popular mocking framework, Rhino Mocks version 3.3 is complete and ready to be used by your tests. This release provides many new features including Remoting Proxies and more.
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Steve Yegge Ports Rails to Javascript/Rhino
At Foo Camp this past weekend, Steve Yegge of Google gave a talk called "Google Rails Clone" where, as John Lam reports, he talked about his experience porting Ruby on Rails to Javascript at Google. InfoQ summarized the community reaction and took the opportunity to speak with Steve Yegge, who was kind enough to answer some questions.