Micronaut is a modern, JVM-based, full-stack Java framework designed for building modular, easily testable JVM applications with support for Java, Kotlin, and the Groovy language. Micronaut is developed by the creators of the Grails framework and takes inspiration from lessons learned over the years building real-world applications from monoliths to microservices using Spring, Spring Boot, and Grails. Micronaut aims to provide all the tools necessary to build JVM applications. With Micronaut you can build message-driven applications, command-line applications, HTTP servers, and more whilst for Microservices in particular Micronaut also provides distributed configuration. This is achieved by pre-computing the framework infrastructure at compilation time which reduces the logic required at runtime for the application to work. Compatible with Java, Groovy, and Kotlin, with Scala on the roadmap.
Features
- Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control (IoC)
- Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP)
- Sensible defaults and auto-configuration
- Reduced memory footprint
- No runtime bytecode generation
- Minimal use of proxies