Dropwizard VS RestExpress

Compare Dropwizard vs RestExpress and see what are their differences.

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

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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8,449 938
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9.6 4.4
7 days ago about 2 months ago
Java Java
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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Dropwizard

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What are some alternatives?

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

Feign - Feign makes writing java http clients easier

RESTEasy - An Implementation of the Jakarta RESTful Web Services Specification

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

Jersey - Eclipse Jersey Project - Read our Wiki:

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

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

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

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