Invoke an function
import javax.script.Invocable; import javax.script.ScriptEngine; import javax.script.ScriptEngineManager; import javax.script.ScriptException; public class InvocableTest { public static void main(String args[]) { ScriptEngineManager manager = new ScriptEngineManager(); ScriptEngine engine = manager.getEngineByName("javascript"); try { engine.eval("function myFunction(name){var output = '';" + " for (i = 0; i <= name.length; i++) {output = name.charAt(i)+'-'+ output" + " } return output;}"); Invocable invokeEngine = (Invocable) engine; Object o = invokeEngine.invokeFunction("myFunction", "abcde"); System.out.println(o); } catch (NoSuchMethodException e) { System.err.println(e); } catch (ScriptException e) { System.err.println(e); } } }