Getting started with Dropwizard

Question

I am new to Dropwizard. This is also my first time to try to develop web service using Java. I have already started reading the "Getting Started" section in the dropwizard site.

However, I can't seem to figure out how to import the dropwizard classes starting with "com.yammer.dropwizard.config.Configuration"

What is the external archive/library that I need before I can use the dropwizard classes? The only file that I found is the downloadable from https://github.com/codahale/dropwizard, but this looks like source codes only. Anything I'm missing?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Erwin,

if you would like to create your project using command-line interface, you could find the instructions here.

On the other hand, if you would like to go with Eclipse, you should select File>Maven Project and in the dialog that appears press Next. In the next dialog press Add Archetype button.

In the dialog that appears

you should enter:

• groupId: io.dropwizard.archetypes
• artifactId: java-simple
• version:0.8.2

and press OK. Information about the current stable version can be obtained here.

After that you can try to type "drop" in Filter input field, select archetype from the list below and press Next.

In the following window set your projects Group Id, Artifact Id and don't forget to set the value of name parameter which is used in the names of autogenerated classes. After that press Finish.

A short youtube video is here.