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Java developers are spoiled for choice. There's everything, from the simplest possible https://sparkjava.com/ https://sparkjava.com/, to the a little bit nicer

by brabel 6y ago

Java developers are spoiled for choice. There's everything, from the simplest possible https://sparkjava.com/ https://sparkjava.com/, to the a little bit nicer https://javalin.io/ https://javalin.io/ (which has a Kotlin wrapper), to the high performance and full framework https://vertx.io/ https://vertx.io/ (which always had great multi-lingual support within the JVM), to the newer and GraalVM-friendly https://micronaut.io/ https://micronaut.io/ and https://quarkus.io/ https://quarkus.io/ ... for the Enterprise-only crowd, you still have the JEE successor, https://jakarta.ee/ https://jakarta.ee/ and Oracle's own https://helidon.io/#/ https://helidon.io/#/ (which likes to position itself as microservice focused, like Micronaut and Quarkus). Not to mention lower level libraries you can use, like https://www.eclipse.org/jetty/ https://www.eclipse.org/jetty/ and https://netty.io/ https://netty.io/. Ktor has a tough fight to become dominant even in the Kotlin world. Spring Boot is, still, definitely the most popular option, but it's still just one of very very many!

mkurz 6y ago
You forgot https://www.playframework.com/ https://www.playframework.com/
- ivanche 6y ago
  Just to add https://www.ninjaframework.org/ https://www.ninjaframework.org/
- vips7L 6y ago
  Never again. Play is one the worst things I've had to work in. Too much scala when you're just trying to Java.
ofrzeta 6y ago
vert.x has unfortunately reduced the support of JVM languages to Java, Kotlin and Groovy. No longer any Scala support, also no support of Javascript.
- pmlopes 6y ago
  JavaScript's support has been moved to the reactiverse project. It's an incubation like project for projects that aren't fully 1.0.0 yet. In there you will find https://reactiverse.io/es4x/ https://reactiverse.io/es4x/, the EcmaScript support For Vert.x. It's a new approach of using vert.x with GraalVM to provide modern ES language features such as ES12, instead of the old Nashorn ES5.1. It also changes the development workflow from a maven-based project to a NPM-based project which should be more familiar to JavaScript developers.
- pmlopes 6y ago
  Scala support is still being finished, however the project team decide to go ahead releasing 4.0.0 at the beginning of the year avoiding the block until the Scala support work was complete. You can follow its development on GitHub or the official Discord server.
  - ofrzeta 6y ago
    Thanks for the info. While checking out vert.x 4.0 I had a hard time figuring out language support from the release notes and blog posts.
listenallyall 6y ago
Or http4k, which implements "server as a function" and is fantastic for an API backend, with lenses/contracts, auto-serialization on top of your choice of Kotlinx/Gson/Moshi/Jackson, nested routing, so much more.

by brabel 6y ago

mkurz 6y ago

You forgot https://www.playframework.com/ https://www.playframework.com/

ivanche 6y ago
Just to add https://www.ninjaframework.org/ https://www.ninjaframework.org/
vips7L 6y ago
Never again. Play is one the worst things I've had to work in. Too much scala when you're just trying to Java.

ofrzeta 6y ago

vert.x has unfortunately reduced the support of JVM languages to Java, Kotlin and Groovy. No longer any Scala support, also no support of Javascript.

pmlopes 6y ago
JavaScript's support has been moved to the reactiverse project. It's an incubation like project for projects that aren't fully 1.0.0 yet. In there you will find https://reactiverse.io/es4x/ https://reactiverse.io/es4x/, the EcmaScript support For Vert.x. It's a new approach of using vert.x with GraalVM to provide modern ES language features such as ES12, instead of the old Nashorn ES5.1. It also changes the development workflow from a maven-based project to a NPM-based project which should be more familiar to JavaScript developers.
pmlopes 6y ago
Scala support is still being finished, however the project team decide to go ahead releasing 4.0.0 at the beginning of the year avoiding the block until the Scala support work was complete. You can follow its development on GitHub or the official Discord server.
- ofrzeta 6y ago
  Thanks for the info. While checking out vert.x 4.0 I had a hard time figuring out language support from the release notes and blog posts.

listenallyall 6y ago

Or http4k, which implements "server as a function" and is fantastic for an API backend, with lenses/contracts, auto-serialization on top of your choice of Kotlinx/Gson/Moshi/Jackson, nested routing, so much more.