🆚 Spring vs. Struts

📈 Struts is twice as popular as Spring.
🌎 Struts is more popular in Korea, the United States, and China.
🌍 Spring is more popular in Germany, Poland, and India.

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

Spring

Struts

Type

Backend framework

About

Spring is a Java framework for building enterprise-grade applications.

It offers a comprehensive ecosystem with features like dependency injection, aspect-oriented programming, transaction management, and support for various data access technologies, including JDBC, JPA, and Hibernate.

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

Palo Alto, United States

Wilmington, Delaware, United States

Website

spring.io #15,742

struts.apache.org

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Struts backend framework is 2.3 times more popular than Spring.

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 Spring is more popular in Germany, Poland, and India.

Korea

United States

China

Germany

Japan

Poland

United Kingdom

India

France

Spain

Awards

⭐ 10th most popular in Poland in the Backend Frameworks category.
🔥 11st most popular in Korea in the Backend Frameworks category.
🔥 15th most popular in China in the Backend Frameworks category.
🔥 16th most popular in India in the Backend Frameworks category.
🔥 16th most popular in Australia 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 Spring is more commonly used on online shopping, software and hardware, and fashion and beauty sites.

Business

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Education/Reference

Government/Military

Software/Hardware

Finance/Banking

Internet Services

Travel

Health

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#19

#22

#32

#85

#96

Name

Rank

#349

#530

#1,356

#1,537

#1,707