Spring Framework vs Yii: What are the differences?
Spring Framework: 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.; Yii: A high-performance PHP framework best for developing Web 2.0 applications. Yii comes with: MVC, DAO/ActiveRecord, I18N/L10N, caching, authentication and role-based access control, scaffolding, testing, etc. It can reduce your development time significantly.
Spring Framework and Yii can be categorized as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.
Spring Framework and Yii are both open source tools. It seems that Spring Framework with 30.6K GitHub stars and 19.6K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Yii with 4.86K GitHub stars and 2.22K GitHub forks.
180vita, Lulo, and Utrip are some of the popular companies that use Yii, whereas Spring Framework is used by Monkey Exchange, CrawlorSoft, and engel80. Yii has a broader approval, being mentioned in 58 company stacks & 32 developers stacks; compared to Spring Framework, which is listed in 4 company stacks and 10 developer stacks.