FWIW, the SPR-9888 JIRA issue [1], which prompted the creation of Spring Boot and is quoted in the article, actually names Dropwizard as an inspiration. The ar

FWIW, the SPR-9888 JIRA issue [1], which prompted the creation of Spring Boot and is quoted in the article, actually names Dropwizard as an inspiration. The article quotes: "I think that Spring's web application architecture can be significantly simplified if it were to provided tools and a reference architecture that leveraged the Spring component and configuration model from top to bottom. Embedding and unifying the configuration of those common web container services within a Spring Container bootstrapped from a simple main() method." The very next lines are: "Though there are many frameworks and platforms today that no longer require a container I think inspiration can be drawn most from DropWizard (http://dropwizard.codahale.com/ http://dropwizard.codahale.com/). Another project I've seen inspired by DropWizard but leveraging Spring is HalfPipe (https://github.com/32degrees/halfpipe https://github.com/32degrees/halfpipe). Though I don't think HalfPipe goes far enough. I think to truly provide simplification the entire architecture, wherever reasonable, must be embedded within the Spring container rather than without. Though it does have several other interesting ideas." [1] https://jira.spring.io/browse/SPR-9888 https://jira.spring.io/browse/SPR-9888