Before we get into its advantages and disadvantages, let's take a glimpse at other noteworthy libraries in Dropwizard:

• Logging: Logback and slf4j for performant and flexible logging

• Hibernate validator: Offers easy ways for user input validation, along with capabilities of generating i18n-friendly error messages

• Http interactions: Bundled with Apache HttpClient and Jersey client libraries, it helps low-level and high-level HTTP interactions with other web services

• JDBI: Provides a simple, comfortable, and straightforward way to establish Relational database connectivity with Java backends

• Templates: Dropwizard supports Freemarker and Mustache, the simplest templating systems for consumer or user-facing applications