Day 13: DropWizard–The Awesome Java REST Server Stack

I have mainly been a Java guy throughout my 8 years as a software developer. For most of the applications I have written, I used the Spring framework or Java EE. Lately, I am spending time learning web development in Python, and one thing that has impressed me a lot is the Flask framework. The Flask framework is a micro-framework which makes it very easy to write REST backends. Today for my 30 day challenge, I decided to find a Java alternative to Python’s Flask framework. After doing some research, I discovered that the DropWizard framework can help me achieve the same productivity as the Flask framework. In this blog, we will learn how to build a RESTful Java MongoDB application using DropWizard. Read the full blog here https://www.openshift.com/blogs/day-13-dropwizard-the-awesome-java-rest-server-stack