Java Equivalent of Express.js for REST

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  • javalin

    Discontinued A simple and modern Java and Kotlin web framework [Moved to: https://github.com/javalin/javalin]

  • If you want something really small that simply let's you expose REST APIs using plain Java, without the IoC containers, you might want to check out Javalin, Ratpack or Armeria

  • Vert.x

    Vert.x is a tool-kit for building reactive applications on the JVM

  • Came here to say this. Vert.x was inspired by Node+Express. It was even originally named NodeX.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • Ratpack

    Lean & powerful HTTP apps

  • If you want something really small that simply let's you expose REST APIs using plain Java, without the IoC containers, you might want to check out Javalin, Ratpack or Armeria

  • Armeria

    Your go-to microservice framework for any situation, from the creator of Netty et al. You can build any type of microservice leveraging your favorite technologies, including gRPC, Thrift, Kotlin, Retrofit, Reactive Streams, Spring Boot and Dropwizard.

  • If you want something really small that simply let's you expose REST APIs using plain Java, without the IoC containers, you might want to check out Javalin, Ratpack or Armeria

  • Quarkus

    Quarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java.

  • Have you checked out Quarkus?

  • Jooby

    The modular web framework for Java and Kotlin

  • Jooby I think is the best bet. https://jooby.io/ watch out for jooby dot org I think someone sniped the domain.

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