Kohana vs Spring Framework: What are the differences?
Developers describe Kohana as "An elegant HMVC PHP5 framework". Kohana is an elegant, open source, and object oriented HMVC framework built using PHP5, by a team of volunteers. It aims to be swift, secure, and small. On the other hand, Spring Framework is detailed as "An application framework and inversion of control container for the Java platform". It provides a comprehensive programming and configuration model for modern Java-based enterprise applications - on any kind of deployment platform
The framework's core features can be used by any Java application, but there are extensions for building web applications on top of the Java EE platform..
Kohana and Spring Framework can be primarily classified as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.
Kohana and Spring Framework are both open source tools. Spring Framework with 30.6K GitHub stars and 19.6K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Kohana with 1.61K GitHub stars and 464 GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, Spring Framework has a broader approval, being mentioned in 4 company stacks & 10 developers stacks; compared to Kohana, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.