Nashorn and the OpenJDK

Nashorn is a JavaScript engine used in the Java programming language and is based on the Da Vinci machine (prototype to extend the JVM to support dynamic languages, and reference implementation to JSR292. Danny Coward who was the specification lead was originally at Sun and now at Liquid Robotics). (Note: Nashorn is German for rhinoceros).

Java 8 and JSR 335

JSR 335 refers to Lambda Expressions in Java and boasts Goldman Sachs, Google and JetBrains on the Expert Group. Brian Goetz is the Spec Lead on this. Brian is with Oracle now, though formerly was an engineer at Sun Microsystems before the takeover.

The Road of JSR (Java Specification Request)

Unhappy with Java APIs as they stand? File a JSR (Java Specification Request). An example would be the Money and Currency API (JSR 354). Filing JSRs is part of the Java Community Process.