Dropwizard is cool if you write REST microservices. It uses embedded jetty, JAX-RS, Jackson, metrics, etc. As far as I know it's inspiration for Spring Boot, a

Dropwizard is cool if you write REST microservices. It uses embedded jetty, JAX-RS, Jackson, metrics, etc. As far as I know it's inspiration for Spring Boot, and it's simpler and ready to use on production.