Java tutorial
import javax.script.Compilable; import javax.script.CompiledScript; import javax.script.ScriptEngine; import javax.script.ScriptEngineManager; import javax.script.ScriptException; public class CompileTest { public static void main(String args[]) { ScriptEngineManager manager = new ScriptEngineManager(); ScriptEngine engine = manager.getEngineByName("javascript"); engine.put("counter", 0); if (engine instanceof Compilable) { Compilable compEngine = (Compilable) engine; try { CompiledScript script = compEngine .compile("function count(){counter=counter+1;return counter;}; count();"); System.out.println(script.eval()); System.out.println(script.eval()); System.out.println(script.eval()); } catch (ScriptException e) { System.err.println(e); } } else { System.err.println("Engine can't compile code"); } } } /**/