Async Http Client
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Async Http Client
Vert.x
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Spark – A web micro framework for Java and Kotlin
https://vertx.io/
It's actively maintained with full time developers, performant, supports Kotlin out of the box, and has more features?
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Reactive database access on the JVM
Hibernate Reactive integrates with Vert.x, but an extension allows to bridge to Project Reactor if wanted
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Looking for a coroutine-based message broker implementation for inter-app communication.
Have you looked at Vert.x?
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What's the state of server-side frameworks with Kotlin support today for small teams?
Explicitly so:
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Anything close beam/otp for other languages?
I really like Eclipse Vert.x... As both an Erlang dev and Java dev, it's a great synergy and soon to have support for Virtual Threads similar to BEAM.
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Go doesn’t do any magical stuff and I love that
There are many lean, popular, non-magical libraries in Java land. (https://quarkus.io/, https://vertx.io/, etc). Spring is a monster 😱. Its like comparing Kubernetes (written in Go) with some lean framework in another lang.
- PFA vs SRL
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Favorite hidden gem library?
Eclipse Vert.x - Add amazing Async to any Java stack
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Codeberg a GitHub Alternative from Europe
Vert.X example: https://github.com/eclipse-vertx/vert.x/blob/master/src/main/java/examples/EventBusExamples.java#L106 (couldn't even find docs)
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Quarkus fundamentals
In fact, it builds on top of proven standards such as Eclipse MicroProfile or frameworks such as Vert.x or JAX‑RS.
What are some alternatives?
OkHttp - Square’s meticulous HTTP client for the JVM, Android, and GraalVM.
Akka - Build highly concurrent, distributed, and resilient message-driven applications on the JVM
Retrofit - A type-safe HTTP client for Android and the JVM
javalin - A simple and modern Java and Kotlin web framework [Moved to: https://github.com/javalin/javalin]
Netty - Netty project - an event-driven asynchronous network application framework
Quarkus - Quarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java.
unirest-java - Unirest in Java: Simplified, lightweight HTTP client library.
Micronaut - Micronaut Application Framework
gRPC - The Java gRPC implementation. HTTP/2 based RPC
RxJava - RxJava – Reactive Extensions for the JVM – a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using observable sequences for the Java VM.
Undertow - High performance non-blocking webserver
helidon - Java libraries for writing microservices