Dropwizard Review

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Pros

Pro
Enhanced productivity and less timewasting

The application can be run and debugged from the IDE without the need to recompile or redeploy the WAR file. This is because a Dropwizard web application creates on main program which starts the jetty container.

Pro
Application metrics integrated into the framework

Dropwizard comes with application metrics integrated out of the box. These metrics provide a lot of useful information such as request/response time.

For example, to get the execution time of a method, the @Timed annotation is used.

Pro
Quick project bootstrap

Starting a project with Dropwizard si very easy and bootstraping is quick and painless. All that's needed is a single dependency added in the pom.xml file and it's ready to go.

Cons

Con
Does not allow a lot a freedom of choice

Dropwizard removes a lot of freedom that the developer may have with other frameworks because of the fact that it tries to do everything itself. It chooses the best Java libraries for the job required, without allowing the developer much choice.