🆚 Play Framework vs. Struts

📈 Struts is four times more popular than Play Framework.
🌎 Struts is more popular in Korea, the United States, and China.
🌍 Play Framework is more popular in Finland.

Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Play Framework

Struts

Type

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

playframework.com #205,610

struts.apache.org

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

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

Hong Kong

France

Spain

India

Awards

🔥 18th most popular in the United States in the Backend Frameworks category.

🥇 Most popular in Korea in the Backend Frameworks category.
⭐ 8th most popular in Hong Kong in the Backend Frameworks category.
⭐ 9th most popular in China in the Backend Frameworks category.
🔥 12nd most popular in Taiwan in the Backend Frameworks category.
🔥 13rd most popular in Japan in the Backend Frameworks category.

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

General News

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#6,726

#8,170

#10,640

#10,856

#17,978

Name

Rank

#349

#530

#1,356

#1,537

#1,707