Dropwizard

Dropwizard is an opinionated, production-ready Java framework for rapidly building high-performance RESTful web services. It bundles a stable stack of mature, best-of-breed libraries into a single, cohesive package, streamlining the development and deployment of robust microservices.

Key facts

First appeared: 2011
Category: technology
Problem solved: Dropwizard solved the pain point of manually selecting, integrating, and configuring disparate Java libraries (web server, JSON processing, metrics, logging, database access, configuration) to build a production-ready RESTful microservice. It provided a coherent, out-of-the-box solution with sensible defaults, reducing boilerplate and accelerating development.
Platforms: macOS, Windows, JVM (Java Virtual Machine), Linux

Related technologies

Docker
Jackson
Prometheus
SLF4J/Logback
Jersey
PostgreSQL
Grafana
JVM
Java
Gradle
AWS
MySQL
Kubernetes
MongoDB
Maven
Jetty

Notable users

New Relic
Various startups and enterprises leveraging Java microservices
Yelp
Yammer