ESA Restlight

Why Restlight?

In microservices, it is generally expected that service is a lightweight application, and the Spring-Web framework we often use is really a good framework that allows us to develop a variety of applications easily, but it is too bloated for applications in microservices, which just need a rest supports and do not need the session, ModelAndview, JSP and so on… Restlight aims to serve as a web framework that helps users to build a high performance and lightweight microservice.

What kind of web application is Restlight suitable for?

• Rest application
• High-performance requirements
• Middleware
• HTTP proxy
• Any application that needs HTTP services

What kind of web application is Restlight not suitable for?

• All in one application
• Servlet requirements: Restlight does not support servlet standards

Env Requirements

Features

• Annotations of SpringMVC and JAX-RS supports
• High performance
• Reactive：CompletableFuture、ListenableFuture(Guava).
• Threading-model: Flexible scheduling between IO EventLoopGroup and Biz Schedulers.
• Http1/Http2/H2c/Https
• HAProxy
• Filter
• Interceptor
• JSR-303: hibernate-validator
• Self-protection: Connection creation limit, Cpu Load protection
• more …

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