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blog.springsource.org is the company blog at blog.springsource.org, writing about programming and web. Since 2011, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “Scripted: A JavaScript editor from VMWare”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.

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21mentions?
13HN people?
2011–2013first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 14 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Commenters link the Spring blog's product announcements and tutorials, including Scripted, Grails 2.0, Spring 3.1 annotation configuration and Android Studio. The comments cite them without judging the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Level up your Java code and explore what Spring can do for you.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Scripted: A JavaScript editor from VMWare
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-10-11
  2. Rod Johnson leaving SpringSource/VMware
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-07-03
  3. Introducing Spring Scala
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-12-10

What Hacker News says?

  1. I am talking about languages which can crosscompile with Java source-code level. So class in Scala can be extended by Java class and again extended by Scala class and so on... By my knowledge this is AspectJ, Kotlin, Scala, Groovy and probably Ceylon This requires deep integration with Java Development Tools to make incremental compilation working. And JDT team refuses this sort of stuff for nearly a decade now (sin…

    Comment linking /2009/07/30/a-groovier-eclipse-experience/

    on “Introducing Android Studio”
  2. Submitted Rod Johnson leaving SpringSource/VMware as a story · 22 points

    HN discussion
  3. Hi. I'm one of the Scripted guys, let me chip in on that. The team working on Scripted are also the guys creating language/framework tooling on the bigger IDE platforms - so writing Eclipse plugins. The real developers using those tools are starting to write more JavaScript whilst at the same time there is the new wave of developers coming straight into JavaScript who aren't great fans of IDEs - usually from the poi…

    Comment linking /2012/10/11/scripted-a-javascript-editor-from-vmware/

    on “Scripted: A JavaScript editor from VMware”
  4. Submitted Grails 2.0 released as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  5. http://blog.springsource.org/2012/10/11/scripted-a-javascrip...

    Comment linking /2012/10/11/scripted-a-javascript-editor-from-vmware/

    on “Scripted: A JavaScript editor from VMware”
  6. Submitted Introducing Spring Scala as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  7. You don't need JSON configuration even if it was existing. You can use annotation based configuration (meaning Java classes with annotations like @Configuration, @EnableWebMvc etc..) for > 90% of the configuration cases: http://blog.springsource.org/2011/06/10/spring-3-1-m2-config...

    Comment linking /2011/06/10/spring-3-1-m2-configuration-enhancements/

    on “Build RESTful web services with Java technology”
  8. Submitted Reactor – a foundation for asynchronous applications on the JVM as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. Sounds great. I may run a couple tests in January, assuming there will be a couple of small updates to Grails 2.0 in the coming weeks. BTW, Grails 2.0 was just released today as well :) http://blog.springsource.org/2011/12/15/grails-2-0-released/

    Comment linking /2011/12/15/grails-2-0-released/

    on “Deploy Grails Applications on Heroku”
  10. Submitted Scripted: A JavaScript editor from VMWare as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted SpringSource Tool Suites 3.0.0 released as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Rod Johnson leaves SpringSource, VMWare as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Introducing Spring Hadoop as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Spring Framework 4.0 M1 & 3.2.3 available as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Introducing Spring Scala as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Spring MVC 3.2 Preview: Introducing Servlet 3, Async Support as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Eclipse Quick Search as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Spring for Apache Hadoop 1.0 Goes GA as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Spring MVC: from JSP and Tiles to Thymeleaf as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Spring MVC 3.2 chat app: async requests, Spring Redis, Thymeleaf & knockout.js as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted How Grails solves the data binding problem as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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