Choose the right Java runtime for the job (2020, Quarkus vs Open Liberty vs traditional application server)

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vert.x

For performance and good support for asynchronous programming, I think the best option is Vert.x. It's the fastest Java option by far according to TechEmpower ranking.

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Javalin

If you're doing something pretty simple and need something really lighweight, however, you could go with something like Javalin or even use Jetty directly (the HTTP server which powers Javalin and many other frameworks by default). It's not that hard to do that and that's what I actually would do myself for almost everything... The fewer moving parts you have in your application, the better chances you have of keeping everything up-to-date and the less chance to mess up (with a caveat: bigger frameworks may give you secure defaults that if you're not experienced enough you may not even know about, so it may be better to not go low level if you're new-ish to running web applications securely).

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