Nowadays I prefer starting with a microprofile subset consisting of jersey+jetty offering the standard JAX-RS APIs.
Is really lightweight at only 6MiBs shaded and grows opportunistically into the microprofile stack of quarkus etc. - you can even integrate the jax-rs bits into spring if you want.
Microprofile has a bunch of standards compliant implementations, so you aren't locked into a specific implementation project.
I think the option is overlooked because the landscape is complex and this setup doesn't have a marketing name, but it is very stable and polished.
You also get IDE support, because JAX-RS is part of microprofile, and formerly part of JavaEE.
Is really lightweight at only 6MiBs shaded and grows opportunistically into the microprofile stack of quarkus etc. - you can even integrate the jax-rs bits into spring if you want. Microprofile has a bunch of standards compliant implementations, so you aren't locked into a specific implementation project.
I think the option is overlooked because the landscape is complex and this setup doesn't have a marketing name, but it is very stable and polished.
You also get IDE support, because JAX-RS is part of microprofile, and formerly part of JavaEE.