Sparkle is an lightweight web framework.

Sparkle is developend based on Servlet 3.0 specification, so it don't need web.xml anymore. Just include sparkle.jar in your project's classpath, start your server, it will be ready.

Sparkle provide a Rails-like style route definition. You don't need config route using annotation. Just write your route rules like

    
    router.match("/projects/{name}").withPost().to("controller#action");

Sparkle use a json library called srape. It's a smart json build library which can write same object to different json object in different scenes. Unlike Gson's annotation, it use a entity-mapping solution.

    final Account account = ...;
    final int status = 20;
    
    new FieldExposerModule() {
        @Override
        public void config(FieldExposer exposer) {
            exposer.expose(status).withName("status");
            exposer.expose(account).withNameAndType("account", AccountEntity.class);
        }
    };

Where AccountEntity defined account's fields will exposed to json result.

• Checkout Sparkle and execute mvn install to install it.
• Change directory to sample, execute mvn jetty:run