Welcome to Dropwizard

Dropwizard is a sneaky way of making fast 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'.
• Fig for JSON configurin'.
• Jerkson/Jackson for JSON parsin' and generatin'.
• Logula/Log4j for loggin'.
• Metrics for figurin' out what your service is doing in production.

Yammer's high-performance, low-latency, Scala services all use Dropwizard. In fact, Dropwizard is really just a simple extraction of Yammer's glue code.

We don't have nearly enough documentation right now.

Tutorials

The quickest way to go from zero to hero using Dropwizard.

• How to build a super-scalable enterprise Hello World service: Start here to begin kicking ass and taking names using Dropwizard in the time it takes you to download a bunch of JARs.
• How to deploy a Dropwizard service: Start here for a straight-forward example of taking a Dropwizard service out into the real world.

Now start kicking some ass.

Topic Guides

How to do various Dropwizardy things.

• Adding A Health Check
• Adding A Resource
• Adding A Module
• Adding A Command
• Adding A Managed Class

Troubleshooting

What to do when you encounter a sadness.

• Problems with Guice?
• Problems with Jersey?