HTTP+JSON Services in Modern Java (opens in new tab)

Thanks for the introduction to Twitter Commons! I've used Dropwizard in the past and loved it. It seems like the shared libraries of both frameworks -- Jetty, Jersey, and Jackson -- provide them with an equally strong foundation. Guice seems to be provided by default in Twitter Commons whereas it's provided via a separate module in Dropwizard, so that's more or less another commonality between them. Can anyone describe differences or pros/cons between using these two frameworks? (Similarly, who was being referenced in the phrase "an opinionated framework that forces certain patterns on you")?

This would be a far better article if it was interwoven with actual code examples. Otherwise, you'd have to switch back and forth between a copy and their code and the blog page to actually grok what they're talking about.

Could you talk about how you're deploying these services. Coming from passenger world, I found jetty deployment to be a bit complex.

are you using maven, etc.? I would be very interested to find out how a ruby centric dev shop is handling Java deployments and builds.

P. S. how about mocks and testing?

I've build REST applications in Java using the Restlet library before, anyone knows some of the advantages of Jersey over Restlet?

Did anyone have success at getting this to work? I'm getting this error:

com.twitter.common.application.AppLauncher exit

SEVERE: Failed to apply arguments

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Failed to parse:

app_class - No parser found for java.lang.Class<? extends com.twitter.common.application.Application>

Minor gripe, but a list seems wrong for that usage. A map or set seems more appropriate.

Referring to: https://github.com/airbnb/twitter-commons-sample/blob/master...

404 here.