Java Based REST framework evaluation

Introduction

It’s always hard to know which is the ‘best’ framework to use for a task. This is a problem I faced with one of my clients recently when we had to justify our choice of REST framework. Hopefully this page will help you choose the ‘best’ for your organisation.

The aim of this evaluation was to get a simple REST service up and running as quickly as possible in each of the above frameworks. Using this I can get a feel for which of the frameworks I like the most.

Frameworks to evaluate (in alphabetical order)

DropWizard

JHipster

RestEasy

Spark

SpringBoot

Vert.x

A summary of my findings

Conclusion