Java REST Frameworks

19 REST Frameworks libraries and projects

• Retrofit

  9.9 7.2 L1 Java

  A type-safe HTTP client for Android and the JVM
  

• Dropwizard

  9.3 9.6 L4 Java

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

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• Spark

  9.1 1.1 L3 Java

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

• Feign

  9.0 8.5 L4 Java

  Feign makes writing java http clients easier
  

• rest.li

  7.6 8.8 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

  REST and JAXRS
  

• Swagger

  7.0 1.1

  The content of swagger.io
  

• Rapidoid

  6.5 0.1 L3 Java

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

• RestExpress

  6.1 5.0 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 2.4 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

  5.7 0.0 Java

  Leading REST API framework for Java
  

• Jersey

  5.4 8.1 Java

  Eclipse Jersey Project - Read our Wiki:
  

• RestX

  4.6 0.0 L2 Java

  RESTX, the lightweight Java REST framework
  

• Crnk

  4.3 4.2 Java

  JSON API library for Java
  

• Hexagon

  4.3 9.6 Kotlin

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

• StubbornJava

  4.0 8.6 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

  3.2 0.0 Java

  Model Driven REST framework to automatically generate CRUD APIs
  

• 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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