Kyle Boon
Lead engineer
dropwizard and groovy
Kyle Boon
Kyle Boon
Lead Developer @ Bloomhealth
kyle.f.boon@gmail.com
@kyleboon
http://www.about.me/kyleboon
What is Dropwizard
Dropwizard is a heavily opinionated framework for building web services on the JVM. It is mostly glue around mature java libraries like Jetty, Jersey, Jackson and Guava.
Dropwizard has out-of-the-box support for sophisticated configuration, application metrics, logging, operational tools, and much more, allowing you and your team to ship a production-quality HTTP+JSON web service in the shortest time possible.
Who Created it?
@coda
As I've said before, the only reason Dropwizard exists at all is to provide
opinions on what a service should be.
It uses fat JARs because I think they work better.
It embeds Jetty because I think that works better.
It uses Jackson because I think that works better.
It uses Jersey because I think that works better.
It has a single YAML configuration file because I think that works better.
It wraps Logback because I think that works better.
Who uses it
- Yammer
- Simple
- Bloomhealth
The stack at BloomHealth
- Groovy for programming
- Grails for web applications
- Dropwizard for JSON web services
- Gradle for builds
- Swagger for Service Discovery
- Gatling for Performace/Load Testing
- Redis for Caching
- RabbitMQ for messaging
How does it work?
Deployed as a fat jar and starts its own container.
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
new ContactsService().run(args)
}
Lets Look at Code
References
Code we've Looked at
- Example Contact Application
- Swagger
- Enhanced Groovy Doc
- swagger-jaxrs-doclet
dropwizard and groovy
By Kyle Boon
