I got tired of heavyweight frameworks, so I built my own web server in Java

I got tired of heavyweight frameworks, so I built my own web server in Java Most Java web projects start with Spring Boot. You add the dependency, and suddenly you have an entire ecosystem loaded into memory before your first route is even registered. For a lot of use cases that's totally fine. But I wanted something I could drop a JAR into a folder, double-click, and have a running web server in under three seconds — no config ceremony, no classpath drama. So I built Aurelius . What is it? Aure