Dropwizard Dropwizard is a sneaky way of making fast Java or Scala web services. It's a little bit of opinionated glue code which bangs together a set of libraries which have historically not sucked: Jetty for HTTP servin'. Jersey for REST modelin'. Jackson for JSON parsin' and generatin'. Log4j for loggin'. Hibernate Validator for validatin'. Metrics for figurin' out what your service is doing in