function f() {
return 1;
};
print( f() + 1 );

jjs func.js

ScriptEngineManager manager = new ScriptEngineManager();
ScriptEngine engine = manager.getEngineByName( "JavaScript" );
System.out.println( engine.getClass().getName() );
System.out.println( "Result:" + engine.eval( "function f() { return 1; }; f() + 1;" ) );

jdk.nashorn.api.scripting.NashornScriptEngine
Result: 2
Nashorn VS Rhino

static void rhino(String parser, String code) {
    String source = "speedtest";
    int line = 1;
    Context context = Context.enter();
    context.setOptimizationLevel(9);
    try {
      Scriptable scope = context.initStandardObjects();
      context.evaluateString(scope, parser, source, line, null);
      ScriptableObject.putProperty(scope, "$code", Context.javaToJS(code, scope));
      Object tree = new Object();
      Object tokens = new Object();
      for (int i = 0; i < RUNS; ++i) {
        long start = System.nanoTime();
        tree = context.evaluateString(scope, "esprima.parse($code)", source, line, null);
        tokens = context.evaluateString(scope, "esprima.tokenize($code)", source, line, null);
        long stop = System.nanoTime();
        System.out.println("Run #" + (i + 1) + ": " + Math.round((stop - start) / 1e6) + " ms");
      }
    } finally {
      Context.exit();
      System.gc();
    }
  }
  static void nashorn(String parser, String code) throws ScriptException,NoSuchMethodException {
    ScriptEngineManager factory = new ScriptEngineManager();
    ScriptEngine engine = factory.getEngineByName("nashorn");
    engine.eval(parser);
    Invocable inv = (Invocable) engine;
    Object esprima = engine.get("esprima");
    Object tree = new Object();
    Object tokens = new Object();
    for (int i = 0; i < RUNS; ++i) {
      long start = System.nanoTime();
      tree = inv.invokeMethod(esprima, "parse", code);
      tokens = inv.invokeMethod(esprima, "tokenize", code);
      long stop = System.nanoTime();
      System.out.println("Run #" + (i + 1) + ": " + Math.round((stop - start) / 1e6) + " ms");
    }
    // System.out.println("Data is " + tokens.toString() + " and " + tree.toString());
  }