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I think Dropwizard is a great alternative to Spring. If you want to draw a spectrum between framework and "curated libraries + best practices", it's much close
by jmchuster 6y ago
I think Dropwizard is a great alternative to Spring. If you want to draw a spectrum between framework and "curated libraries + best practices", it's much closer to the latter. But then I guess that also depends on how much you consider the libraries it uses like guice and jndi to be "mini-frameworks". Ultimately, all that matters is how easy it makes your job, in both the best case and worst case scenarios, so I'll leave that to your own judgement as an engineer.
- garethjrowlands 6y agoDropwizard was amazing when it came out and is still much better than deploying to Tomcat, say. But it's showing its age and I'd consider it too frameworky these days. My current currently preference is http4k, which is more library and less framework. Admittedly, that's Kotlin and thus not a fair comparison, but then, newer things can take advantage of other newer things.