Running #nashorn on Raspberry Pi with #java SE embedded 1.8.0_33

javase_embedded_nashorn_raspberry_pi.txt

I wanted to try Java SE embedded nashorn on Raspberry PI. So,
 
1) I downloaded Oracle Java SE Embedded version 8 update 33 

ejdk-8u33-fcs-linux-armv6-vfp-hflt.tar.gz from 

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/embedded/embedded-se/downloads/javase-embedded-downloads-2209751.html
 
2) Followed the steps documented @ "Introducing the EJDK" 
[ https://blogs.oracle.com/jtc/entry/introducing_the_ejdk ] to create compact1-client JRE.
 
3) I used the following command to make a JRE
 
./ejdk1.8.0_33/bin/jrecreate.sh --profile compact1 --dest compact1-client -vm client -x nashorn
 
The -x nashorn part is to include nashorn.jar in the JRE created
 
4) Created tar.gz out of compact1-client directory created and copied it to Raspberry PI.
 
5) After expanding compact1-client.tar.gz, I created a shell script "jjs" 
under ./compact1-client/bin
 
`dirname $0`/bin/java jdk.nashorn.tools.Shell $*
 
 
6) with that, I was able to run jjs as
 
cd ./compact1-client/bin
./jjs
jjs> print("hello")
hello 

Start up is slow (like many other things in Raspberry Pi!). Once jjs starts in interactive mode,
command execution is not bad. Perhaps, I should get a Raspberry Pi 2 ;-)