It is easy to make a Java applet and JavaScript code talk with each other. This article explores the mechanisms used to make bidirectional communications happen. In addition, you discover which of ...

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.

Nevertheless, one way of implementing a JavaScript interpreter is to compile JavaScript into Java byte codes, which is what Rhino and Nashorn were designed to do.

Instead of “stepping up” from JavaScript to Java, as many nascent Web programmers are doing, a seasoned technical professional can “step down” from Java or C++ to JavaScript and create ...

First of all, JavaScript is not Java. It has nothing to do with Java (The language and its associated technologies from Sun Microsystems). To be honest, I'm not even sure why it's called JavaScript.

It's a bit unclear what you mean when you say "what can I do". If you're referring to specific language features that are available to Java or C++ that are not available to JavaScript, it would be ...