There I was trying to figure out how to use Spring to create a restful web service with hibernate. All the while learning more about Java as a language. After many headaches of understanding and configuring thank God I stumbled against Dropwizard.

Drop wizard is good! Don't knock the simple Spring MVC approach either though! Resource based end points are cool but suffer from the same problems that Servlets did in days gone by. I have to admit though, the way drop wizard wires up your database instance to your endpoint is absolutely 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

love Dropwizard, already launched 3 SaaS systems into production with it