Jodd – The Unbearable Lightness of Java

Re:Jodd – The Unbearable Lightness of Java by edavis on Saturday March 28, 2015 @02:20AM (#9280667)

If I wanted to learn more about web development in Java, what's a good starting point? Something that can give me a high-level overview, current best practices, and perhaps a simple "Hello World" example.

I currently work with Django and Wordpress, so I'm not totally new here. But last time I dived into this world, I could not make heads or tails of it.

Java seems like a powerful tool to have in your toolbox, but from what I've found it does not lend itself to be easily picked up.

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Re:Jodd – The Unbearable Lightness of Java by hendzen on Saturday March 28, 2015 @02:30AM (#9280679)

One word. Dropwizard.

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Re:Jodd – The Unbearable Lightness of Java by twic on Saturday March 28, 2015 @10:16AM (#9281551)

edavis asked about web development. Dropwizard was built for web services. There is a bit of a difference - user-facing web apps need to do templating, authentication, session management, etc.

I see that there is a Dropwizard module for templated views, which looks reasonably nice:

https://dropwizard.github.io/dropwizard/manual/views.html

I'm not sure how well it supports the other aspects of a web application.

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Re:Jodd – The Unbearable Lightness of Java by flaie on Saturday March 28, 2015 @03:39AM (#9280765)

Spring boot.

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Re:Jodd – The Unbearable Lightness of Java by twic on Saturday March 28, 2015 @10:19AM (#9281557)

Spring Boot certainly makes it very easy to get started, and to grow your system in the way that Spring envisions. For getting started, there's even the Initializr:

https://start.spring.io/

However, as soon as you want to go off the beaten path (eg to have two databases), Spring starts to become an obstacle rather than an assistance. In this respect, it's similar to Rails or any other large, opinionated framework.

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Re:Jodd – The Unbearable Lightness of Java by foolinator on Monday March 30, 2015 @06:03AM (#9288572)

I love spring boot. I use two databases and solr. It's easy. And fun.

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Re:Jodd – The Unbearable Lightness of Java by umut on Saturday March 28, 2015 @06:12AM (#9280958)

Definitely Dropwizard or Ninjaframework

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Re:Jodd – The Unbearable Lightness of Java by kitd on Saturday March 28, 2015 @10:45AM (#9281625)

Spark java is a good Sinatra-like framework.

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