Most Java developers and JavaScript developers understand that besides the four letters “J-A-V-A,” JavaScript and Java have very little in common other than some C-like heritage.

Obligatory rant: JavaScript may have Java as part of its name, but the two languages are very different in spirit and design, as well as in their implementations. Nevertheless, one way of ...

Java is an OOP programming language, while JavaScript is an OOP scripting language. Java creates applications that run in a virtual machine or browser, while JavaScript code runs only on a browser.

The javascript file contains a method addToViewer (theUrl), I need to get the variable 'url' from the servlet into this method.

What can I do with Java and C++ that I can't do with JavaScript? This question was originally answered on Quora by Mattias Petter Johansson.

JavaScript remains by far the most popular programming language with developers, followed by Python and then Java, according to analyst firm SlashData's latest survey of developers. The company's ...

JetBrains asked developers to pick up to three languages they consider their primary programming language. In this context, JavaScript comes out on top (39%), followed Java (37%), and Python (31%).

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.