Spark VS Retrofit

Compare Spark vs Retrofit and see what are their differences.

Spark

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

Retrofit

A type-safe HTTP client for Android and the JVM (by square)
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Spark Retrofit
3 47
9,600 42,613
- 0.3%
0.0 9.1
7 months ago 14 days ago
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Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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Spark

Posts with mentions or reviews of Spark. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-11.

Retrofit

Posts with mentions or reviews of Retrofit. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-23.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Spark and Retrofit you can also consider the following projects:

Jersey - Eclipse Jersey Project - Read our Wiki:

Feign - Feign makes writing java http clients easier

Swagger - The content of swagger.io

OkHttp - Square’s meticulous HTTP client for the JVM, Android, and GraalVM.

Dropwizard - A damn simple library for building production-ready RESTful web services.

Async Http Client - Asynchronous Http and WebSocket Client library for Java

RESTEasy - An Implementation of the Jakarta RESTful Web Services Specification

unirest-java - Unirest in Java: Simplified, lightweight HTTP client library.

Android Volley

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