This bug is reported from this blog entry and the discussion followed from it:

http://blog.tempusdictum.com/index.php/gepr/java-8-nashorn-problem

File: Eval.java

import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.script.ScriptException;

public class Eval {
  final static javax.script.ScriptEngineManager manager = new javax.script.ScriptEngineManager();
  final static javax.script.ScriptEngine engine = manager.getEngineByExtension("js");
  javax.script.ScriptContext context = new javax.script.SimpleScriptContext();
  public javax.script.Bindings scope = null;

  String script = null;

  public Eval(String fileName) {
    context.setBindings(engine.createBindings(), javax.script.ScriptContext.ENGINE_SCOPE);
    scope = context.getBindings(javax.script.ScriptContext.ENGINE_SCOPE);

    script = convertStreamToString(
             getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(fileName));
  }

  public static String convertStreamToString(java.io.InputStream is) {
    java.util.Scanner s = new java.util.Scanner(is).useDelimiter("\\A");
    return s.hasNext() ? s.next() : "";
  }

  public double eval(double t) {
    double retVal = Double.NaN;
    Object result = null;
    scope.put("ind", t);
    try {
      result = engine.eval(script,scope);
    } catch (ScriptException e) {
      System.err.println(e.getMessage());
      e.printStackTrace();
      System.exit(-1);
    }
    if (result instanceof Double)
      retVal = (Double)result;
    else
      retVal = ((Integer)result).doubleValue();
    return retVal;
  }

  public static void main(String args[]) {
    Eval se1 = null;
    Eval se2 = null;
    se1 = new Eval("test.js");
    se2 = new Eval("test.js");
    se1.scope.put("constant", 1.00);
    se2.scope.put("constant", 0.50);
    for (double t=0.0; t<150.0; t += 10.0) {
      System.out.print("test eval("+t+") = "+ se1.eval(t)+" : ");
      System.out.println("test eval("+t+") = "+ se2.eval(t));
    }
  }
}


File: test.js

var math = new JavaImporter(java.lang.StrictMath);
var constant;
var ind;
with (math) {
  tempy = StrictMath.exp(-constant*ind);
}

Commands:

$ javac Eval.java
$ java -Djava.ext.dirs=<nashorn.jar-dir-from-jdk9-or-jdk8u-dev> Eval


test eval(0.0) = 1.0 : test eval(0.0) = 1.0
test eval(10.0) = 4.539992976248485E-5 : test eval(10.0) = 0.006737946999085467
test eval(20.0) = 2.061153622438558E-9 : test eval(20.0) = 4.539992976248485E-5
test eval(30.0) = 9.357622968840175E-14 : test eval(30.0) = 3.059023205018258E-7
test eval(40.0) = 4.248354255291589E-18 : test eval(40.0) = 2.061153622438558E-9
test eval(50.0) = 1.9287498479639178E-22 : test eval(50.0) = 1.3887943864964021E-11
test eval(60.0) = 8.75651076269652E-27 : test eval(60.0) = 9.357622968840175E-14
test eval(70.0) = 3.975449735908647E-31 : test eval(70.0) = 6.305116760146989E-16
test eval(80.0) = 1.804851387845415E-35 : test eval(80.0) = 4.248354255291589E-18
test eval(90.0) = 8.194012623990515E-40 : Exception in thread "main" java.lang.AssertionError: __noSuchProperty__ placeholder called
at jdk.nashorn.internal.objects.NativeJavaImporter.__noSuchProperty__(NativeJavaImporter.java:108)
at jdk.nashorn.internal.runtime.ScriptFunctionData.invoke(ScriptFunctionData.java:658)
at jdk.nashorn.internal.runtime.ScriptFunction.invoke(ScriptFunction.java:229)
at jdk.nashorn.internal.runtime.ScriptRuntime.apply(ScriptRuntime.java:387)
at jdk.nashorn.internal.runtime.ScriptObject.invokeNoSuchProperty(ScriptObject.java:2378)
at jdk.nashorn.internal.runtime.ScriptObject.megamorphicGet(ScriptObject.java:2043)
at jdk.nashorn.internal.scripts.Script$Recompilation$3$\^eval\_.:program(<eval>:5)
at java.lang.invoke.MethodHandle.invokeWithArguments(MethodHandle.java:636)
at jdk.nashorn.internal.runtime.ScriptFunctionData.invoke(ScriptFunctionData.java:636)
at jdk.nashorn.internal.runtime.ScriptFunction.invoke(ScriptFunction.java:229)
at jdk.nashorn.internal.runtime.ScriptRuntime.apply(ScriptRuntime.java:387)
at jdk.nashorn.api.scripting.NashornScriptEngine.evalImpl(NashornScriptEngine.java:459)
at jdk.nashorn.api.scripting.NashornScriptEngine.evalImpl(NashornScriptEngine.java:423)
at jdk.nashorn.api.scripting.NashornScriptEngine.evalImpl(NashornScriptEngine.java:419)
at jdk.nashorn.api.scripting.NashornScriptEngine.eval(NashornScriptEngine.java:152)
at javax.script.AbstractScriptEngine.eval(AbstractScriptEngine.java:233)
at Eval.eval(Eval.java:31)
at Eval.main(Eval.java:53)