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by stevoski 1349 days ago
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.

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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.

> 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.