Modern JVM based frameworks are far from being "monsters", and you have a lot, lot of choices! Many of them have an embedded HTTP server so they are very easy t

Modern JVM based frameworks are far from being "monsters", and you have a lot, lot of choices! Many of them have an embedded HTTP server so they are very easy to develop and deploy. In case you want to investigate some: - https://grails.org https://grails.org - http://sparkjava.com http://sparkjava.com - https://www.playframework.com https://www.playframework.com - http://projects.spring.io/spring-boot http://projects.spring.io/spring-boot - https://www.spincast.org https://www.spincast.org - http://jooby.org http://jooby.org - http://www.ninjaframework.org/ http://www.ninjaframework.org/ - http://www.dropwizard.io/0.9.3/docs/ http://www.dropwizard.io/0.9.3/docs/