The jrunscipt command comes with Java 1.6. Use it to call javascript files from the command line. The Rhino scripting engine is used as default.

jrunscript scriptfile.js arg1 arg2 ...

See also the manpage

Did not find a complete document yet. See Global Properties and Functions, jrunscript JavaScript built-ins (alternaltive)

Note that print and println is somehow not documented in the Built-ins.

Use the predefined arguments array:

for (var i=0; i<arguments.length; i++) println('Arg '+ i+ ' '+ arguments[i]);

exit(code)

echo('Hello world!');
println('Hello World!');
print('Hello World!\n');
printf('Hello World!\n');

Did not found a built in function, so i use the java library:

java.lang.System.err.println("Error")

use read

From within a Webbrowser, you have access to the DOM API whereas from jrunscript (with Rhino) you have access to the jrunscript Built-ins and the Java-API. The only intersection are the javascript built in core functions and objects.

In order to support both a CLI- and a Web frontend one should separate the frontend-specific code from the generic application code:

cli.js      <---.
                |--- core_app.js 
html_dom.js <---´

load('core_app.js')
core_app() // function is defined in core_app.js