Orchestrator uses JavaScript to create building blocks from which you create actions, workflow elements, and policies that access the APIs of the technologies that you plug into Orchestrator.

Orchestrator uses the Mozilla Rhino 1.6 JavaScript engine as its scripting engine. The scripting engine provides variable type checking, name space management, automatic completion, and exception handling.

The Orchestrator workflow engine allows you to use basic JavaScript language features, such as if, loops, arrays, and strings. You can use objects in scripting that the Orchestrator API provides, or objects from any other API that you import into Orchestrator through a plug-in and that you map to JavaScript objects. For information about Rhino, see the Mozilla Rhino Web site.