> On Aug 8, 2014, at 8:40 AM, Django <django013_at_soft.schwarzrot-design.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>> Why do you use Grizzly container? And why you don’t use Servlet container?
>
> I want a small footprint service. My first thought was about HttpComponents,
> but then I read about jersey ...
>
Have you thought about Dropwizard? It uses Maven too, but Dropwizard is much more minimal. You can even build single JAR deployables.
The typical reason why Maven downloads so many things, is because there are so many dependencies. That's not Maven's fault.
Tom