Krash (Crash) is a build tool which produces self contained Javascript applications in a jar file for use with the Rhino Javascript engine. The current version of Krash is 0.1 (29 August 2008)

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What's in the box?

Krash (Crash) is a small project to help make creating compact, robust, multi-platform JavaScript applications practicable using the Mozilla Rhino JavaScript engine.

Since Rhino is written in Java, Crash makes use of this to help build JavaScript applications using standard Java tools. It also provides a small set of Java classes, and a simple JavaScript library specifically designed to leverage both Rhino and Java, but within the JavaScript environment.

Using Crash, your JavaScript application can be distributed in just two files; the standard Rhino jar file, and a specially constructed jar file containing all the code and other artefacts of your application.

With the help of Crash, launching your JavaScript application can be as easy as typing:

java -jar crash.jar

What's under the hood?

Krash (Crash) uses Java, Mozilla Rhino and the Apache Ant build tool to produce most of its magic. The rest is supplied by JavaScript itself.

You will need Java and Mozilla Rhino for your JavaScript application development anyway, only Apache Ant is an additional tool requirement.

Want to know more?

Why not take a look at the manual?

29 August 2008: The good news is that version 0.1 has been released.