🆚 Play Framework vs. Struts

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Backend framework
Backend framework

About

Play Framework is a community-maintained, high-velocity web framework for Java and Scala.

It provides a stateless, asynchronous architecture based on Akka, a modular structure for scalable applications, hot code reloading, built-in testing support, and native JSON handling for APIs.

Apache Struts is an open-source MVC framework for creating modern Java web applications.

It features a plugin architecture supporting REST, AJAX, and JSON, a robust interceptor stack, POJO-based actions, simplified configuration through XML scanning, custom tag libraries, and modular extensions.

Headquarters

Wilmington, Delaware, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source

Categories

Backend Frameworks › Rank #26
Backend Frameworks › Rank #16

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Struts backend framework is 4 times more popular than Play Framework.
Total websites

Market share

Backend Frameworks

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Struts is more popular in Korea, the United States, and China, while Play Framework is more popular in Finland.
Korea
United States
China
Japan
United Kingdom
Germany
Spain
Hong Kong
France
India

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Struts is more popular among sites focused on business, education and reference, and government and military, while Play Framework is more commonly used on finance and banking sites.
Business
Finance/Banking
Education/Reference
Government/Military
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Internet Services
Travel
Software/Hardware
Health

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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#8,170
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#1,356
#1,707
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See also

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