Dropwizard is a sneaky way of making fast Java web applications.

It's a little bit of opinionated glue code which bangs together a set of libraries which have historically not sucked:

• Jetty for HTTP servin'.
• Jersey for REST modelin'.
• Jackson for JSON parsin' and generatin'.
• Logback for loggin'.
• Hibernate Validator for validatin'.
• Metrics for figurin' out what your application is doin' in production.
• JDBI and Hibernate for databasin'.
• Liquibase for migratin'.

Read more at dropwizard.io.