As we are covering the advantages and disadvantages of each framework, let's touch upon them for Dropwizard as well, so that you can decide why or why not to use Dropwizard. The following are its merits:

• A Java framework
• Out-of-the-box support for configuration, application metrics, logging, operational tools, templating, and much more
• You can do rapid prototyping
• Ops-friendly
• Very modular
• Develops high-performance RESTful web services
• Supports many open source and independent libraries
• Implementation of monitoring at its best with Metrics
• Supports integration and the use of several third-party frameworks