Java REST Frameworks

19 REST Frameworks libraries and projects

• Retrofit

  9.9 7.0 L1 Java

  A type-safe HTTP client for Android and the JVM
  

• Dropwizard

  9.2 9.7 L4 Java

  A damn simple library for building production-ready RESTful web services.
  

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• Spark

  9.1 0.0 L3 Java

  A simple expressive web framework for java. Spark has a kotlin DSL https://github.com/perwendel/spark-kotlin

• Feign

  9.0 8.3 L4 Java

  Feign makes writing java http clients easier
  

• rest.li

  7.5 8.2 L1 Java

  Rest.li is a REST+JSON framework for building robust, scalable service architectures using dynamic discovery and simple asynchronous APIs.
  

• RESTEasy

  7.1 9.1 L3 Java

  An Implementation of the Jakarta RESTful Web Services Specification
  

• Swagger

  6.9 0.4

  The content of swagger.io
  

• Rapidoid

  6.4 0.0 L3 Java

  Rapidoid - Extremely Fast, Simple and Powerful Java Web Framework and HTTP Server!
  

• RestExpress

  6.1 2.8 L4 Java

  Minimalist Java framework for rapidly creating scalable, containerless, RESTful microservices. Ship a production-quality, headless, RESTful API in the shortest time possible. Uses Netty for HTTP, Jackson for JSON, Metrics for metrics, properties files for configuration. Sub-projects and plugins enable, NoSQL, Swagger, Auth0, HAL integration, etc.
  

• RAML

  6.1 0.0 L5 JavaScript

  RAML to HTML documentation generator.
  

• Microserver

  6.1 0.0 L5 Java

  Microserver is a Java 8 native, zero configuration, standards based, battle hardened library to run Java Rest Microservices via a standard Java main class. Supporting pure Microservice or Micro-monolith styles.
  

• Restlet Framework

  5.6 0.0 Java

  Leading REST API framework for Java
  

• Jersey

  5.5 8.2 Java

  Eclipse Jersey Project - Read our Wiki:
  

• RestX

  4.5 0.0 L2 Java

  RESTX, the lightweight Java REST framework
  

• Crnk

  4.3 3.4 Java

  JSON API library for Java
  

• Hexagon

  4.3 9.4 Kotlin

  Hexagon is a microservices toolkit written in Kotlin. Its purpose is to ease the building of services (Web applications or APIs) that run inside a cloud platform.
  

• StubbornJava

  4.0 4.1 Java

  Unconventional Java code for building web servers / services without a framework. Think dropwizard but as a seed project instead of a framework. If this project had a theme it would be break the rules but be mindful of your decisions.
  

• gemini

  3.3 5.4 Java

  Cloud Native and Low Code Platform to create FullStack web Admin applications in minutes
  

• Restler

  2.3 0.0 Java

  Restler is a library that automatically generates a client for a web service at run time, by analyzing the respective annotated Spring controller interface
  

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