Jetty

Using Jetty form-based authentication with Dropwizard

Dropwizard is a rather nice Java REST framework. Although mainly designed for web services, it can also be used for MVC-style web applications, with dropwizard-views which supports both FreeMarker and Mustache templates on the front end.

What’s missing out of the box is form-based authentication. The embedded Jetty web server does contain this functionality — but there are a number of steps involved in getting it wired up.