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Yes. Most of the unnecessary complexity has just been moved from bad APIs with XML configuration to bad APIs with runtime scoped annotations, code generation and byte code manipulation. It's still a huge mess.
I use Dropwizard in my day-to-day and I've never ran into any code generation or byte code manipulation.
I've had an excellent experience with Dropwizard. It combines robust, simple-to-use libraries, has excellent documentation, is easy to poke into, and "just works". It's my go-to framework if I want to create REST apps in Java. Congrats on the 1.0 release!
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My greatest gripe with Java was the amount of crap one had to go through just to build a simple Rest API. When I saw DropWizard I thought it solved that need. Maybe it's time to get back into Java development...
If you love dealing with magic "comefrom" annotations, codegen that isn't debuggable, and foundational libraries that have to resort to bytecode manip to get stuff done, then go ahead.
For reference, what types of languages/frameworks do you like to work with?
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If you love dealing with magic "comefrom" annotations, codegen that isn't debuggable, and foundational libraries that have to resort to bytecode manip to get stuff done, then go ahead.
So, is the answer to just bail on Java forever? I haven't written anything legitimate in Java in about two years, but I don't remember it being that bad. For reference, what types of languages/frameworks do you like to work with?
I've also had good luck with Spring Boot, but it's a little magical for my tastes - I vastly prefer Guice for Java DI - just straightforward and predictable (that's just my subjective take though).
Dropwizard is a good bundling of stacks, but I don't think it'd match my personal preferences.
I will say that doing rest-style service work in modern Java frameworks is actually not too bad these days. Java 8 makes it even nicer.
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I use Dropwizard in my day-to-day and I've never ran into any code generation or byte code manipulation.
Interesting because they made it sound pretty horrific.
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Yes. Most of the unnecessary complexity has just been moved from bad APIs with XML configuration to bad APIs with runtime scoped annotations, code generation and byte code manipulation. It's still a huge mess.
I use Dropwizard in my day-to-day and I've never ran into any code generation or byte code manipulation.
Nice to see a 1.0 release. We've been using Dropwizard for various public and internal APIs for a couple of years and have been very happy with it. The components (jersey, jackson, coda hale metrics) are all very pleasant to work with, and generally have low-ceremony APIs that feel as productive as the ruby or python equivalents while providing the performance and operability of the JVM. It's not the fastest or most…
What JVM microframeworks would you recommend for streaming or async?
Dropwizard is great for REST APIs (... as the title says). However if you want to use traditional views (MVC, html templates, security, forms etc) then please check something else (I tried it and lost many hours -- in the end I still couldn't do even basic things). For traditional web development, I recommend spring-boot which is almost as easy as dropwizard, it also doesn't need an application container and fully su…
Dropwizard is great for REST APIs (... as the title says). However if you want to use traditional views (MVC, html templates, security, forms etc) then please check something else (I tried it and lost many hours -- in the end I still couldn't do even basic things). For traditional web development, I recommend spring-boot which is almost as easy as dropwizard, it also doesn't need an application container and fully su…
What templating language did you use with Spring MVC?
Nice to see a 1.0 release. We've been using Dropwizard for various public and internal APIs for a couple of years and have been very happy with it. The components (jersey, jackson, coda hale metrics) are all very pleasant to work with, and generally have low-ceremony APIs that feel as productive as the ruby or python equivalents while providing the performance and operability of the JVM. It's not the fastest or most…
What JVM microframeworks would you recommend for streaming or async?