Armeria
Your go-to microservice framework for any situation, from the creator of Netty et al. You can build any type of microservice leveraging your favorite technologies, including gRPC, Thrift, Kotlin, Retrofit, Reactive Streams, Spring Boot and Dropwizard. (by line)
javalin
A simple and modern Java and Kotlin web framework [Moved to: https://github.com/javalin/javalin] (by tipsy)
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| Armeria | javalin | |
|---|---|---|
| 7 | 23 | |
| 4,664 | 5,583 | |
| 1.1% | - | |
| 9.6 | 9.1 | |
| 6 days ago | almost 2 years ago | |
| Java | Kotlin | |
| Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Armeria
Posts with mentions or reviews of Armeria.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-14.
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Evaluating Spring Boot, Quarkus, or Micronaut and why for Stargate v2
OP doesn't seem to be aware of Armeria https://github.com/line/armeria
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Best library for messenger backend (JVM)
Armeria (https://armeria.dev/) is a very underrated framework and does not get enough love, it works fabulously with Kotlin (coroutines support also built-in) and integrates nicely with GRPC, Thrift, etc. The maintainers are very responsive and nice and always helping people out.
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Google hired union-busting consultants to convince employees “unions suck”
Honestly yes? Higher pay, less overtime.
Enjoy https://github.com/line/armeria from a unionized tech company of South Korea!
- gRPC, Thrift, REST Server framework
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Java Equivalent of Express.js for REST
If you want something really small that simply let's you expose REST APIs using plain Java, without the IoC containers, you might want to check out Javalin, Ratpack or Armeria
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A Kotlin programmer's approach to microservices?
Check out Armeria, it's a newer framework from the creator of Netty for micro services and comes with many builtin functionalities for service discovery, logging and fault tolerance. It's getting a lot of adoption from companies like Slack, Doordash, Afterpay and Databricks too. It kind of reminds me of Finagle from the Scala ecosystem in that it supports many different protocols (gRPC, thrift and HTTP).
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sttp now suppots Armeria backend
Armeria which fully supports Reactive Streams and non-blocking IO now powers sttp as a backend.
javalin
Posts with mentions or reviews of javalin.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-18.
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Looking for maintainer for jvm-brotli
If you've read this far, you might be interested to know that Javalin has been offering Brotli compression through jvm-brotli for three years already, and that there have been no (reported) issues. In other words, the effort required to release and maintain this is probably not huge.
- Using "equivalents" in other languages to help learn
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Question about Kotlin from an ex-Java developer
I'm a big fan of Ktor (ktor.io) but another reasonable lightweight alternative is Javelin (https://javalin.io/). Heck even Spring Boot isn't that bad. HikariCP + JooQ (has both java and kotlin codegen) for DB access if you need and you're good to go.
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Turbo: The speed of a SPA without writing JavaScript
A similar alternative that does not rely on web sockets is https://htmx.org. I have greatly enjoyed using it with some simpler web frameworks like https://javalin.io to do some prototyping and smaller projects. I'm sure if someone made a plug and play UI library like material UI for Angular on top of htmx you could absolutely fly through MVPs.
- Does Java has an equivalent to Django/Laravel/Node
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Java Equivalent of Express.js for REST
Javalin
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Java Servlets
If you're already familiar with most of the concepts around HTTP and web services, I'd recommend using something like https://javalin.io/ which is light weight frame work that makes getting something up and running quickly a very easy task.
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Why people don't love Java?
I've been looking at https://javalin.io/ Seems close enough to express and some big names are using it, so I wouldn't say it's fizzling out
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Is there Expressjs like framework for java
Javalin (https://javalin.io) is strongly inspired by Express and Koa, so you should feel right at home:
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There is no magic in Spring, I wrote my own (very simplified) framework from scratch to show it
If you want to do a proper comparison between the two, I would be happy to help with code examples from Javalin's side. I could even host it on https://javalin.io as a "Comparison to Jooby" blog post.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Armeria and javalin you can also consider the following projects:
ktor - Framework for quickly creating connected applications in Kotlin with minimal effort
Google HTTP Client - Google HTTP Client Library for Java
Spring Boot - Spring Boot
unirest-java - Unirest in Java: Simplified, lightweight HTTP client library.
Vert.x - Vert.x is a tool-kit for building reactive applications on the JVM
Quarkus - Quarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java.
methanol - ⚗️ Lightweight HTTP extensions for Java
http4k - The Functional toolkit for Kotlin HTTP applications. http4k provides a simple and uniform way to serve, consume, and test HTTP services.
Jooby - The modular web framework for Java and Kotlin