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.

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.

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.