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. A JavaScript engine (also known as JavaScript interpreter or JavaScript implementation) is an interpreter that interpretes JavaScript source code and executes the script accordingly. ... Brendan Eich Brendan Eich (born 1964) is a computer programmer and creator of the JavaScript programming language. ... Netscape Communications Corporation was the publisher of the Netscape Navigator web browser as well as many other internet and intranet client and server software products. ... The Mozilla Foundation (abbreviated MF or MoFo) is a non-profit organization that exists to support and provide leadership for the open source Mozilla project. ...

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). C is a general-purpose, procedural, imperative computer programming language developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system. ... This article is about the computing term. ... An interpreter is a computer program that executes other programs. ... A decompiler is the name given to a computer program that performs the reverse operation to that of a compiler. ... In computer science, garbage collection (also known as GC) is a form of automatic memory management. ... Document Object Model (DOM) is a platform- and language-independent standard object model for representing HTML or XML and related formats. ...

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. Mozilla Firefox is a graphical web browser developed by the Mozilla Corporation and a large community of external contributors. ... The Mozilla Application Suite (originally known as Mozilla, marketed as the Mozilla Suite, and code named Seamonkey) is a free, cross-platform internet suite, whose components include a web browser, an e-mail and news client, an HTML editor, and an IRC client. ... SeaMonkey is a free, open source, and cross-platform Internet suite that is the continuation of the former Mozilla Application Suite. ... Adobe Acrobat was the first software to support Adobe Systems Portable Document Format (PDF). ... Yahoo! Widgets running under Mac OS X Yahoo! Widgets running under Windows XP with Konsposé enabled. ... UOX, or Ultima Offline eXperiment, is an Ultima Online (UO) emulator that is written in C++ and released under the GPL. Today, the term UOX almost exclusively refers to the third version, UOX3. ... Ultima Online (UO) is a popular graphical massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), released on September 25, 1997, by Origin Systems. ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... The Sphere 1. ... A role-playing game (RPG, often roleplaying game) is a type of game in which the participants assume the roles of fictional characters and collaboratively create or follow stories. ...

SpiderMonkey and its sister engine Rhino have implemented support for the ECMAScript for XML (E4X) standard. Rhino is an open source JavaScript engine. ... ECMAScript for XML (E4X) is a programming language extension that adds native XML support to ECMAScript (ActionScript, DMDScript, E4X, JavaScript, JScript). ...

In the future, SpiderMonkey will become integrated with Tamarin.^[1] Tamarin is a free virtual machine and just in time compiler intended to implement the fourth edition of the ECMAScript standard. ...

See also

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

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References

1. ^ "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"

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External links

• SpiderMonkey (JavaScript-C) Engine
• Documentation for SpiderMonkey
• Franky Braem Tutorial on using JS from C++
• SpiderApe - a C++ library built on top of SpiderMonkey, intended to simplify the process of embedding and extending SpiderMonkey
• Some projects that use Spidermonkey engine - JavaScript Native Interface, JavaScript Host
• jslibs project - zlib, SQLite, NSPR, ode, libpng, libjpeg, libffi, (...) libraries for SpiderMonkey.