Uma comparação entre micro frameworks web para o desenvolvimento de aplicações back-end em Java

Abstract

A backend micro web framework is an application framework with only the essential components for creating a web application. Focusing on providing functionality of a given area very efficiently with fewer components and lower overhead compared to a conventional framework. Thus, this paper aims to present a comparison between the Java backend web micro frameworks, most popular in number of stars in their repositories on the Github platform, they are: Spark, Jooby and Pippo. In this work we used the criterion of Popularity measured by the number of stars in the Github repository. In this comparison we used the following comparison criteria: Documentation, Learning Curve, Popularity, IOC Support, REST Architecture Support, Input Validation, Published Articles, and Community Size. To make the evaluation was implemented the application of PetClinic that was used in several other works in the literature. From the results obtained from the comparison between the selected back-end web micro frameworks it was found that the Spark Framework (which is not Apache Spark) was the best for the implementation of the selected test application, PetClinic.