Re: [henshin-dev] Planning the next release + Java 15 issue

[Matthias Tichy <matthias.tichy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Daniel,

thanks for working on a new release

Am 17.03.2021 um 10:25 schrieb Daniel Strüber:

> There is one crucial technical issue remaining: Our used JavaScript 
> engine Nashorn has been removed with Java 15. As a consequence, the 
> interpreter currently doesn't work on Java 15.
> There is an official successor for Nashorn called GraalVM, but despite 
> first attempts I have not yet managed to find a solution to successfully 
> integrate GraalVM into Henshin.
> There is also a standalone version of Nashorn available that might be 
> useful here (but there might be downward compatibility issues when using 
> it).

According to

https://github.com/szegedi/nashorn/wiki/Using-Nashorn-with-different-Java-versions

it should be possible to use the standalone nashorn version for Java 11 
and upwards.

But i have no experience with it.

Cheers,

Matthias

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