Dropwizard is more similar to spring boot than guice, but is more a collection of libraries than an enterprise-style framework like spring.
It has a fairly strong developer community, and the rationale behind targeting something like this as opposed to spring is that users seeking to build a more complicated distributed application are likely to opt for building blocks that give them more control. Here are some of the other modules offered: http://modules.dropwizard.io/. (There's actually already a service discovery module, but the intention of dropwizard-helix is to eventually go beyond that). -Greg On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 2:07 PM, kishore g <[email protected]> wrote: > This is interesting. I will try to read up some more about this framework. > Are there any other frameworks that support similar behavior. Is this > comparable to spring, guice etc? > > > > On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Greg Brandt <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hey, >> >> If you're not familiar with it, Dropwizard (http://www.dropwizard.io/) >> is a really good Java framework for building web applications. It has >> basically everything you'd need to build a web application - JDBI (or >> Hibernate), views, authentication, etc. and leverages solid existing >> components (Jetty, Jersey, Jackson, Metrics). >> >> One thing that it is lacking is the ability to easily deploy distributed >> applications, so I created a module that aims to make it very simple to use >> Helix to accomplish that: https://github.com/brandtg/dropwizard-helix >> >> Currently it only does really simple service discovery, but I think there >> are a lot of complementary features between the two frameworks that we >> could explore. For example, Dropwizard's task interface ( >> http://www.dropwizard.io/0.9.1/docs/manual/core.html#tasks) could >> leverage Helix's task framework to make running distributed tasks easy. >> >> My idea is to basically offer the Helix recipes as Dropwizard bundles, >> requiring no code from the user other than adding the bundle / config, then >> have an advanced mode where one can basically just provide state transition >> handler / factory class for things like master / slave. But the bundle >> would take care of all the details like computing instance name, >> connecting, etc. >> >> You can see it in use here: >> https://github.com/brandtg/dropwizard-helix/blob/master/src/test/java/com/github/brandtg/discovery/TestHelixServiceDiscoveryBundle.java >> >> -Greg >> > >
