Re: [JSMentors] I didn't understood the term javascript Engine,what does it mean.

2011-08-20 Thread Laurie Harper
Oops; appologies to the list for such a Node-centric reply. To be clear: Node is by no means the only server-side Javascript platform; there are others. I assume the reference to "Node: Up and Running" is an indication that that's what the OP is looking at though ;-) L. On 2011-08-20, at 7:50

Re: [JSMentors] I didn't understood the term javascript Engine,what does it mean.

2011-08-20 Thread Laurie Harper
Specifically, in your frame of reference: the Javascript Engine is roughly equivalent to the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) -- i.e. the component that handles compiling/evaluating your code. Tomcat is an application written in Java which implements the Servlet API. For web application development

Re: [JSMentors] I didn't understood the term javascript Engine,what does it mean.

2011-08-20 Thread Amit Agarwal
Javascript engine is the part of a browser which is responsible for executing loaded Javascript code. Better your JS engine executes JS faster. Details? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript_engine Example? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTkTBKSnqbA On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Rahul wr

[JSMentors] I didn't understood the term javascript Engine,what does it mean.

2011-08-20 Thread Rahul
I searched on Wikipeidia , but i didn't understood the explanation. Many article says that Javascript engine is used for "Javascript Web server", But how come web server ? I have worked on Tomcat server and having knowledge of J2EE framwork, here a browser send request using a url, now this requ