SpiderMonkey

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This article is about the JavaScript engine. For the animal, see Spider monkey. For the XBRL taxonomy editor, see SpiderMonkey (taxonomy editor)

SpiderMonkey is the code name for the first ever JavaScript engine, written by Brendan Eich at Netscape Communications and later released as open source. SpiderMonkey is now maintained by the Mozilla Foundation.

SpiderMonkey is written in C and contains a compiler, interpreter, decompiler, garbage collector, and standard classes. It does not itself provide host environments such as Document Object Model (DOM).

It is intended to be embedded in other applications that provide host environments for JavaScript. The most popular applications are Mozilla Firefox and the Mozilla Application Suite/SeaMonkey, along with Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader. SpiderMonkey is also the JavaScript engine for Yahoo! Widgets (formerly known as "Konfabulator") and UOX3 (UOX), an Ultima Online emulator. A rather popular and creative utilization of the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine is the open source Sphere suite of applications primarily intended to aid in the design of Role-playing games.

SpiderMonkey and its sister engine Rhino have implemented support for the ECMAScript for XML (E4X) standard.

In the future, SpiderMonkey will become integrated with Tamarin.^[1]

[edit] See also

Free software Portal

Rhino
List of JavaScript engines
JavaScript OSA, a SpiderMonkey inter-process communication language for the Macintosh computer

[edit] References

^ "We have already developed, via a two-day marathon hacking session, a set of proof-of-concept patches to integrate it with SpiderMonkey." from "Project Tamarin"