dropwizard/dropwizard
Dropwizard
Dropwizard is a Java web application stack and REST framework used to build production-ready web services. It integrates an embedded HTTP server with operational tools to provide a complete environment for developing network interfaces that exchange JSON data.
The project provides a set of core technology stacks for relational data mapping, schema migration, and operational performance monitoring. It includes a relational database migration tool to track schema updates and execute versioned scripts before an application starts.
The framework covers a broad capability surface including request data validation, JSON serialization, and object-relational mapping. It also features application performance monitoring to track real-time system metrics and stability in production environments.
Features
- REST Frameworks - Provides a comprehensive framework for building production-ready RESTful web services and APIs.
- Schema Versioning - Utilizes Liquibase to track and manage database schema versions through numbered scripts.
- Database Migration Management - Provides a comprehensive system for managing and versioning database schema migrations.
- Database Migration Tools - Ships tools to automate the execution of database structure update scripts during startup.
- Object-Relational Mapping - Integrates Hibernate to map Java objects to relational database records and manage persistence.
- Relational Database Integrations - Links application objects to relational tables and manages schema migrations for data consistency.
- Application Performance Monitoring - Ships built-in tools to track real-time system metrics and application behavior in production environments.
- Embedded Web Servers - Includes an embedded Jetty server to run the web application directly within the process.
- Java - Offers a complete integrated stack for building server-side web applications and services using Java.
- RESTful Services - Provides a full stack for developing production-ready RESTful web services exchanging JSON data.
- JSON Serialization Libraries - Uses Jackson for consistent serialization and deserialization of Java objects to JSON.
- Object-Relational Mappers - Provides an integrated layer for mapping Java classes to relational database tables to automate data persistence.
- Metric and Performance Monitors - Provides operational monitoring using counters and timers to track real-time system performance.
- Request Mappings - Uses Jersey to declaratively map HTTP requests to Java methods via JAX-RS annotations.
- Request Validation - Implements constraint-based validation to enforce data integrity on incoming request payloads.
- Language Toolkits - Ops-friendly framework for high-performance RESTful services.
- REST Frameworks - Opinionated framework for setting up modern web services.
- Server Frameworks - Ops-friendly framework for high-performance Java REST services.
