[stevoski]

This is Javalin and it is great. We switched to it a few months ago from another micro-framework.

[tipsee]

Indeed it is! May I asked what you switched from?

[topspin]

I'll guess and say Spark.

Not the big data Spark. This one: sparkjava.com

A nice piece of work in its own right.

[stevoski]

You guessed correctly!

Spark was fine, but was abandoned. Which means it was stuck using an end-of-life’d version of Jetty. Which meant that we could no longer pass security audits.

Whereas Javalin continues to get frequently updated.

[topspin]

Spark ruined me. Everyone expects Spring, but dealing with Spring and all the pointless annotation magic is a misery; I find myself longing to just use Spark and forgo all that crap.

I suppose I'll try Javalin then next time I have the choice.

[michaelcampbell]

> Spark was fine, but was abandoned.

Aw, that's sad to hear. I've been out of JVM-in-anger space for awhile, but I always liked Spark when I was.