🆚 Apache Wicket vs. Play Framework
- 📈 Play Framework is three times more popular than Apache Wicket.
- 🌎 Play Framework is more popular in the United States, Finland, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Apache Wicket is more popular in Germany, France, and Sweden.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Apache Wicket
Play FrameworkType
Backend framework
Backend framework
About
Apache Wicket is a component-oriented backend framework for 
Java that enables developers to build dynamic web applications using pure Java and 
HTML.
It supports reusable components, AJAX functionality, session management, CSRF protection, and integration with authentication libraries such as Shiro and Spring Security.
JSONHeadquarters
Wilmington, Delaware, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
Backend Frameworks › Rank #32
Backend Frameworks › Rank #26
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Play Framework technology is 3 times more popular than Apache Wicket.
Total websites
Market share
Backend Frameworks
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Play Framework is more popular in the United States, Finland, and the United Kingdom, while Apache Wicket is more popular in Germany, France, and Sweden.
United States
Germany
Finland
United Kingdom
France
Sweden
Netherlands
Japan
Norway
Canada
Awards
- ⬆️ 30th most popular in Germany in the Backend Frameworks category.
- ⬆️ 31st most popular in the United States in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🔥 15th most popular in Finland in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🔥 18th most popular in the United States in the Backend Frameworks category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Play Framework is more popular among sites focused on finance and banking, business, and Internet services, while Apache Wicket is more commonly used on online shopping, education and reference, and health sites.
Finance/Banking
Business
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Marketing/Merchandising
Health
Entertainment
Job Search
Travel
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Apache Software Foundation company profile🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,511,995 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.