helidon VS Javalin

Maybe take a look at Helidon SE from Oracl (you find a short tutorial at https://www.baeldung.com/microservices-oracle-helidon). Source: 11 months ago

If you’ve used NodeJS & ExpessJS, in Java world, Vert.x, Helidon and Javalin should be familiar. Source: over 1 year ago

If you’ve used ExpressJS, you could try Vert.x and Helidon. Source: almost 2 years ago

You would think that if the site of one of the biggest programming languages is an abomination for both consumers and developers, then the one for a rest framework that the same company develops on the side should be even worse, but that's not the case as we are talking about oracle. How is the helidon website absolutely stunning on both mobile and desktop? It's still developed by oracle, just how is it possible... Source: almost 2 years ago

The specification playground is called microprofile, where new specifications are rapidly prototyped. Some products are built around only that platform like quarkus, helidon or Micronaut. Source: almost 2 years ago

I'd recommend Javalin (https://javalin.io/) instead. Same idea, only executed better and it is actively maintained. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

SparkJava has an actively developed fork/successor called Javalin[1]. It's straightforward to convert from SparkJava to Javalin. The latter is written in Kotlin, but works fine with ordinary Java. While the rest of the Java world was devolving into annotation hell, AOP and other nightmares, these Java microframeworks showcased what happens when you forego legacy Java and leverage modern Java language features... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

The size statistics page is super cool: https://github.com/byronka/minum/blob/master/docs/size_comparisons.md Aside from that, I've also had good experiences with Dropwizard - which is way simpler than Spring Boot but at the same time uses a bunch of idiomatic packages (like Jetty, Jersey, Jackson, Logback and so on): https://www.dropwizard.io/en/stable/ I do wonder whether Minum would ever end up on the... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

One of the most common web frameworks used is Spring Boot - here is their quickstart: https://spring.io/quickstart Newer alternatives are: https://micronaut.io/ and https://quarkus.io/ If you want to have something really simple look at Javalin: https://javalin.io/. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

Counter-example: https://javalin.io/ uses Servlets, and seems to be doing quite fine without annotations. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago