Rhino (JavaScript engine) Rhino can be used as a debugger by making use of the Rhino shell.
It can be used in applications by embedding Rhino. A slightly modified version of Rhino 1.6r2 comes bundled with the Sun Microsystems release of Java SE version 6, which was released in December 2006. This makes it easier to integrate JavaScript as part of Java programs and to access Java resources from JavaScript. JavaScript engine. History[edit] Before the second browser war in 2008-2009, the JavaScript engine (also termed JavaScript interpreter or JavaScript implementation) was known as simply an interpreter that read and executed JavaScript source code.
By far the most common host environment for JavaScript is a web browser. V8 (JavaScript engine)