RestExpress vs Dropwizard

RestExpress

Minimalist Java framework for rapidly creating scalable, containerless, RESTful microservices. Ship a production-quality, headless, RESTful API in the shortest time possible. Uses Netty for HTTP, Jackson for JSON, Metrics for metrics, properties files for configuration. Sub-projects and plugins enable, NoSQL, Swagger, Auth0, HAL integration, etc. (by RestExpress)

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Dropwizard

A damn simple library for building production-ready RESTful web services. (by dropwizard)

REST Frameworks Dropwizard Java web-framework REST Hibernate Jersey2 Jetty jax-rs Jdbi jersey-framework restful-webservices

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RestExpress		Dropwizard
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-	Mentions	7
938	Stars	8,451
0.2%	Growth	0.1%
4.4	Activity	9.6
2 months ago	Latest Commit	3 days ago
Java	Language	Java
Apache License 2.0	License	Apache License 2.0

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RestExpress

Posts with mentions or reviews of RestExpress. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

Dropwizard

Posts with mentions or reviews of Dropwizard. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-11.

Javalin – a simple web framework for Java and Kotlin
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Feb 2024
Is there any example of a recent dropwizard application?
1 project | /r/java | 16 Feb 2023

I'm trying to set up a simple RESTful API with dropwizard that does some basic CRUD with a postgresql database. I've managed to get some endpoints working with dummy responses following the documentation, but I am now quite stuck when it comes to implementing the database functionality. The page about JDBI3 doesn't really help because the example usage doesn't match with the example app in the repository, where the code looks quite different and with no recent commits. It seems to assume prior knowledge of all of these libraries (which I don't have).
Dropwizard 2.1.0 has been released
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 24 May 2022

1 project | /r/opensource | 24 May 2022

2 projects | /r/java | 24 May 2022
Non Spring users what are you using ??
7 projects | /r/java | 2 Nov 2021

You might like Dropwizard then.
best light framework or library for developing API without the magic (Spring)
4 projects | /r/java | 3 Mar 2021

Dropwizard is a nice opinionated veneer over all the standard bits and pieces. https://www.dropwizard.io

What are some alternatives?

When comparing RestExpress and Dropwizard you can also consider the following projects:

RESTEasy - An Implementation of the Jakarta RESTful Web Services Specification

Feign - Feign makes writing java http clients easier

Jersey - Eclipse Jersey Project - Read our Wiki:

Spark - A simple expressive web framework for java. Spark has a kotlin DSL https://github.com/perwendel/spark-kotlin

Retrofit - A type-safe HTTP client for Android and the JVM

Microserver - Microserver is a Java 8 native, zero configuration, standards based, battle hardened library to run Java Rest Microservices via a standard Java main class. Supporting pure Microservice or Micro-monolith styles.

Crnk - JSON API library for Java

Rapidoid - Rapidoid - Extremely Fast, Simple and Powerful Java Web Framework and HTTP Server!

javalin - A simple and modern Java and Kotlin web framework [Moved to: https://github.com/javalin/javalin]