Does Rhino have a future?
<p>I'm looking to add serious 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>

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<li><a href="http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/pres/201009-ThunderingRhinos/pres.html">Great Thundering Rhinos!</a> presentation from Oracle</li>
<li><a href="http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/rohit_mullangi/37001">Explore and implement JDK7 InvokeDynamic</a> Google Summer of Code project</li>
</ul>

<p>But nothing solid about actually merging this code into the project and getting an active committer community around it.</p>

<p>What is the Rhino road map? For example, is there any plan to bring <code>invokedynamic</code> to the Rhino world?</p>
