[decebals]

I am the initiator of this project. It's an honor for Pippo to be mentioned on ycombinator.

I see some debates related to "micro" definition. A while ago a friend of mine posted some comments on reddit justifying why Pippo is "micro". If you are interested to find out the arguments please read https://www.reddit.com/r/java/comments/3x1wsm/why_are_java_w....

When I published the first article about Pippo on Dzone(about one year ago), someone asked me "what are the key differences/advantages of Pippo compared to another Java micro framework Spark?" You can see my answer in the comment section of the article (https://dzone.com/articles/pippo-micro-java-web-framework) Pippo is small, modular but it's not a simple toy. You have a lot of features that are not available in other (Java) micro frameworks.

If you want more features (security, scheduler, rest doc, event bus, mailer, DI), try Fathom (http://fathom.gitblit.com). Fathom is a Undertow+Guice+Guava+Config+Logback stack over Pippo. For people that like the super declarative approach (via Java annotations) from Spring Boot, we will try to upstream the fathom-rest module (http://fathom.gitblit.com/rest) in the pippo-controller module.

There are some new features/modules that are not documented yet (for example PippoTest class from pippo-test module, ...) but Pippo demos (https://github.com/decebals/pippo-demo) are great and you can learn incrementally many aspects of Pippo from these.

Have fun!