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This is a really great resource and I'll certainly be embracing some of it. I attend quite a few university hackathons as a mentor/sponsor and one of my goals

This is a really great resource and I'll certainly be embracing some of it. I attend quite a few university hackathons as a mentor/sponsor and one of my goals has been to paint Java in a better light as it doesn't have the best reputation in that circuit. I'm always telling people that their goal should be to build something cool and learn something new. It's much easier to teach someone how to build their first webapp in a weekend when you can do it in a language that they are familiar with and Java seems to be what's taught at most universities. The Spark Framework mentioned here is very well done and beginner friendly. I recently wrote an intro blog post [0] about it as an attempt to embrace existing knowledge and showcase that it's easy to build something cool with Java. 0: https://www.twilio.com/blog/2015/09/getting-started-with-gradle-and-the-spark-framework-3.html https://www.twilio.com/blog/2015/09/getting-started-with-gra...

potatosareok 11y ago
Looking at Spark framework I'm wondering about your thought of Spark vs Spring Boot. I've not used Spark but I find Spring Boot lets you get an app of the ground quickly, is part of massive Spring ecosystem which gives you a lot of other advantages (for example, Mongo template might be very useful for Hackathon project). Beyond that RestController automatic integration with Jackson can quickly let you bring up a JSON based webservice. Also I'm not a fan of how in your example the entire app routing/logic is basically crammed into a single main method. I know it might be simple demo app that you're trying to show off Twilo but I don't think you're doing favor by structuring like that. What do you feel are the benefits of Spark vs Spring Boot (or Dropwizard I guess). In my mind the only reason I wouldn't use Spring-Boot for a new project in Java is if I wanted to use something like Play! since supposedly using Play!/Scala and futures integrate very nicely into that.

potatosareok 11y ago

Looking at Spark framework I'm wondering about your thought of Spark vs Spring Boot. I've not used Spark but I find Spring Boot lets you get an app of the ground quickly, is part of massive Spring ecosystem which gives you a lot of other advantages (for example, Mongo template might be very useful for Hackathon project). Beyond that RestController automatic integration with Jackson can quickly let you bring up a JSON based webservice. Also I'm not a fan of how in your example the entire app routing/logic is basically crammed into a single main method. I know it might be simple demo app that you're trying to show off Twilo but I don't think you're doing favor by structuring like that. What do you feel are the benefits of Spark vs Spring Boot (or Dropwizard I guess). In my mind the only reason I wouldn't use Spring-Boot for a new project in Java is if I wanted to use something like Play! since supposedly using Play!/Scala and futures integrate very nicely into that.