This is a companion repository for the blog post at http://blog.remmelt.com/2014/09/14/basic-dropwizard-example/.
Package and run the application:
mvn clean package && java -jar target/dropwizard-ping-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar server src/main/resources/config.yml
Then browse to localhost:8080/ping or curl localhost:8080/ping
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