Using the Rhino JavaScript engine in XPages

Not sure how useful this is yet, but if you want to use the Rhino engine with XPages, here's how:

var rhinoEngine = new javax.script.ScriptEngineManager().getEngineByName(
    "JavaScript");
// to eval JavaScript string: rhinoEngine.eval( jsString );

Oracle Tutorial

General API for javax.script.ScriptEngine

Java 6 uses Rhino v1.6R2 (documentation/etc)


One thing that just came to mind is maybe to use Rhino where IBM JScript fails.

E.g.

String.prototype.rhinoMatch = function( regExpString, modifiers ){
 var rhino = new javax.script.ScriptEngineManager().getEngineByName("JavaScript");
 rhino.eval( 
    'var result = "' + this + '".match( ' + regExpString + modifiers + ' )' );
 return rhino.get( 'result' )
}

'{lastName}, {firstName}'.rhinoMatch( '/\\{(\\w+)\\}/', 'g' );
// returns array, ["{lastName}", "{firstName}"]