[smallerfish]

Kotlin + Dropwizard. Avoid Hibernate, go with JDBI.

If I was starting a new project I'd look at Jooby, which looks pleasant and does very well on TechEmpower benchmarks.

[icedchai]

JDBI is pretty slick. We used it as a previous company. Previous experience was with Hibernate, lower level JDBC, and some other half baked proprietary ORMs.