RhiNode should be considered stale. Please check out RhiNodeII (also on GitHub).
RhiNodeII started from scratch and is sufficiently different from RhiNode to warrant a new project.

The RhiNode repository will be deleted soon.

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RhiNode provides a Javascript API around Java's NIO library.

This was bourne out of frustration over claims that NIO is slow and does
not scale and the fun in functional programming.

The API itself is very heavily inspired by node.js. Where feasible and
sensible the API is compatible to node.js.

Common.js type modules are used to encapulate functionality.

The current abstractions include:
o events
o fs (filesystem)
o net
o http

No serious attempt towards optimization have been made, yet. For example the
http module only uses the "public" net API with no shortcuts.
The main event loop is currently implemented in Javascript as well.

The only tight loop implemented directly in Java is the scanning of the
network buffers for line-endings and http headers.

Since NIO does not provide selectable FileChannel, files are currently
treated as streams (channels) that are alway readable and writable.

This is version 0.1, it works pretty for me and performs pretty well.
But there are a bunch of hacks and shortcuts that need to be addressed.

For integration with Rhino a bunch of files where copied from the Rhino
distribution and slightly modified. The changed are packaged in a separate
jar and can used with standard Rhino installation.
You need the latest Rhino 1.7r3, though (a pristine jar is included).

To get started:
#build/install
ant -Ddist=<installDir>
#run a simple http server
<installDir>/rhinode example/http-1.1-content-length.js