Spring Framework vs TurboGears: 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.; TurboGears: The Web Framework that scales with you. It is a Python web application framework consisting of several WSGI components such as WebOb, SQLAlchemy, Genshi and Repoze. It is built on top of the experience of several next generation web frameworks including TurboGears1 (of course), Django, and Rails.
Spring Framework and TurboGears can be categorized as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.
Some of the features offered by Spring Framework are:
- Lightweight
- Dependency Injection
- Transaction Management
On the other hand, TurboGears provides the following key features:
- Rapid Web Application development
- Data Persistance
- Transaction manager to help with multi-dababase deployments
Spring Framework is an open source tool with 31.4K GitHub stars and 20.2K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Spring Framework's open source repository on GitHub.