I'm sorry, I may have been misunderstood. I meant that Dropwizard exemplifies how you can pick and choose components, those atomic libraries, into a "framework" of your choosing. Dropwizard contains very little code. It's just an assembly of the parts you wished existed, and the proof that those parts already exist.
I think of Dropwizard much like express for node, and most of the "cool kids" in the node community think that that's just too much for a single library.
I like Dropwizard, don't get me wrong, but it isn't quite a micro-framework by other standards.