Running Node.js applications on the JVM with Nashorn and Java 8

The following steps show how to run a simple Node.js web application on OSX. The steps should be very similar for Linux or Windows.

Download avatar-js.jar from the java.net Maven Repo. Current version is here: https://maven.java.net/content/repositories/public/com/oracle/avatar-js/0.10.25-SNAPSHOT/ Example file: avatar-js-0.10.25-20140313.063039-43.jar

Download the native library avatar-js.dylib from the java.net Maven Repo. Current version is here: https://maven.java.net/content/repositories/public/com/oracle/libavatar-js-macosx-x64/0.10.25-SNAPSHOT/ Example file: libavatar-js-macosx-x64-0.10.25-20140312.062209-35.dylib For Linux you would download the corresponding .so file from ../libavatar-js-linux-x64/0.10.25-SNAPSHOT/

For Windows you would download the corresponding .dll file from ../libavatar-js-win-x64/0.10.25-SNAPSHOT/

Rename the native library to avatar-js.dylib and rename the jar to avatar-js.jar and put both in a directory called dist

 





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var http = require('http');



// Configure our HTTP server to respond with Hello World to all requests.

var server = http.createServer(function (request, response) {

  response.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type": "text/plain"});

  response.end("Hello World\n");

});



// Listen on port 8000, IP defaults to 127.0.0.1

server.listen(8000);



// Put a friendly message on the terminal

console.log("Server running at http://127.0.0.1:8000/");

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Run the command:

 java -Djava.library.path=dist -jar dist/avatar-js.jar app.js

The output should be:
Server running at http://127.0.0.1:8000/