Big kudos to whoever is behind this framework for the excellent documentation and the funky site. Still, I doubt I would use Jodd in a new project. The core co

Big kudos to whoever is behind this framework for the excellent documentation and the funky site. Still, I doubt I would use Jodd in a new project. The core components (MVC and data access framework) are completely new to me. It seems that they are developed by the same people behind Jodd. I don't particularly like Spring MVC or Hibernate, but Jodd libraries don't seem to be widely used (only 22 questions on SO and no forum or mailing list). Beside the poor adoption, from a cursory look at the documentation, I couldn't find any striking feature. Actually the DB mapping module seems quite convoluted. Also, I don't get this strong emphasis on the framework being "lightweight". Who cares if my project uses 3MB or 20MB of libraries? As others pointed out, also take a look at Dropwizard and Ninjaframework.