title: Rhino - dead in the water?
body: <p>I'm looking to add scripting into my Java app and JavaScript would be a great language choice. My concern though is the Rhino project and its future.</p>
  
  <p>While Groovy/Jruby etc have seen constant updates, and engines like V8 and SpiderMonkey make continuous and significant performance boosts; Rhino languishes with its last release in March '09.</p>
  
  <p>I've seen some work on hacking Rhino:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><a href="http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/pres/201009-ThunderingRhinos/pres.html" rel="nofollow">http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/pres/201009-ThunderingRhinos/pres.html</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/rohit_mullangi/37001" rel="nofollow">http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/rohit_mullangi/37001</a></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>But nothing solid about actually merging this code into the project and getting an active committer community around it.</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone have any insight into the Rhino road map? </p>
  
  <p>Is there any plan for example to bring invokedynamic to the Rhino world? </p>
  
  <p>Or is Rhino's destiny to simply become less and less relevant as time goes on?</p>
  
  <p>All insight appreciated!</p>