# Playing With Nashorn Scripting Features

Nashorn is shipped with Java 8 and can be used as a system scripting language with seamless Java integration. 


One of the killer features is the IDE support. In contrary to batch files or shell scripts, Nashorn is JavaScript (ECMA-262, edition 5.1) and is supported in the IDE with syntax highlighting, code-completion and direct integration with Java ecosystem. Even executable native system scripts can be easily debugged:





Static Page Generator (SPG) is another example of executable Nashorn script example.


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