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A new Apache-licensed open-source project, Rhino in Spring aims to integrate the Mozilla Foundation's Rhino JavaScript interpreter for Java with the Spring Framework.

The current release includes a controller component for the Spring Web MVC that allows you to express complex multipage flows in your web applications as server-side JavaScript programs.

You can use all the amenities of a full-blown imperative programming language while designing flows. You can write libraries of reusable code encapsulated into functions (i.e. validators), you can use the familiar for(), if(), while(), switch/case etc. statements to express the control flow, and so on.... read more