I feel like I get pretty far with just https://javalin.io/ https://javalin.io/ or http://sparkjava.com/ http://sparkjava.com/. They're pretty similar but Javali

I feel like I get pretty far with just https://javalin.io/ https://javalin.io/ or http://sparkjava.com/ http://sparkjava.com/. They're pretty similar but Javalin is being built by a maintainer of Spark and inherits many of the lessons learned from it. These are basically thin wrappers on Jetty. SQL: Mybatis or JDBI. SQL Migrations: Flyway JSON: Jackson, usually Redis: Jedis