Question

Which is a useful way to try out small and simple Rhino programs and one-liners?

(a) Starting an interactive shell

(b) Starting a one to one shell

(c) Creating a thread to do simple programs

(d) Starting a multiple shell

The question was posed to me in an online quiz.

My doubt stems from Scripting Java with Rhino topic in section Server-Side and Client-Side Scripting of JavaScript

Answer 1

Right answer is (a) Starting an interactive shell

The explanation: Rhino is distributed as a JAR archive. Start it with a command line like this :

java -jar rhino1_7R2/js.jar program.js

If you omit program.js, Rhino starts an interactive shell, which is useful for trying out simple programs and one-liners.