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Jersey vs Sinatra: What are the differences?
What is Jersey? *A REST framework that provides a JAX-RS implementation *. It is open source, production quality, framework for developing RESTful Web Services in Java that provides support for JAX-RS APIs and serves as a JAX-RS (JSR 311 & JSR 339) Reference Implementation. It provides it’s own API that extend the JAX-RS toolkit with additional features and utilities to further simplify RESTful service and client development.
What is Sinatra? Classy web-development dressed in a DSL. Sinatra is a DSL for quickly creating web applications in Ruby with minimal effort.
Jersey and Sinatra can be primarily classified as "Microframeworks (Backend)" tools.
Sinatra is an open source tool with 10.6K GitHub stars and 1.91K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Sinatra's open source repository on GitHub.
Product Hunt, thoughtbot, and 500px are some of the popular companies that use Sinatra, whereas Jersey is used by Bodybuilding.com, Unruly, and Nekso. Sinatra has a broader approval, being mentioned in 112 company stacks & 260 developers stacks; compared to Jersey, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 11 developer stacks.
Pros of Jersey
- Lightweight4
- Fast Performance With Microservices1
- Java standard1
Pros of Sinatra
- Lightweight65
- Simple50
- Open source35
- Ruby20
- Great ecosystem of tools13
- Ease of use10
- If you know http you know sinatra8
- Large Community5
- Fast5
- Flexibilty and easy to use1