wasabi + guice, I guess I should say

@sss Spring boot works just fine with Kotlin. I've built a project with it recently but I wouldn't use it again, except for very simple stuff. Too much magic, which is both its strength for smaller projects and its weakness for larger more complex ones. I am now building a project with Dagger2+ktor. Dagger2 is great -- compile-time dependency injection so runtime is super-fast and lightweight. ktor is early stages, but already quite stable. Wasabi is nice as well -- the wasabi guys are working on a core rewrite to improve performance. See also https://github.com/rocketraman/kotlin-web-hello-world for other backend web framework possibilities.

@rocketraman that's interesting. But my team will want something that is fairly stackoverflow-able (if that makes sense). Which one among the larger frameworks would you recommend for production?

I think I would do some prototyping with vert.x

@rocketraman that's the second recommendation i have heard about vert.x and kotlin . by the Datawire.io guys

very happy with sparkjava

I wrote a thin-layer dsl for sparkjava to make it a bit more sinatra-like here: https://github.com/Jkly/kspark

@jkwatson does wasabi offer async handling? (I tink it doesn’t 😞 )

alternative is ktor, I think

@noctarius what exactly do you mean by "async handling"?

@orangy i think he means asyncAction from Play framework

thing that returns http result future?

@hackerham how do you know what another person means? 🙂 Are you having telepathic abilities?

I’m asking, because there are several meanings of “async handling” out there, so depending on their specific use case it may mean one or another.

like in servlet spec 3

some way to suspent request handling and take off at a later point (for example when the async call to the db finishes)

in a callback or smt like that 🙂

@orangy have you seen ktor being used in production ? just curious because we are evaluating moving our api codebase to kotlin from python. vert.x looks to be the most promising after its kotlin support lands . especially because of http://vertx.io/whos_using/

@noctarius can’t say for #wasabi, but it’s in #ktor core. Its pipeline system is built for asynchronous processing and easy DSLs.

yeah I’ve seen ktor has that 🙂

@sss you can ask in #ktor, some people are using it, but I don’t know of their deployment status.

@noctarius how do you do “db async call”?

db != sql db 😉

hazelcast for example has async calls 😄

couchbase does

and some others too

and there’s an async jdbc like driver too

I think for postgres, don’t really remember 😄

is there any other opensource sql database? 😉