Spring Framework vs webapp2: What are the differences?
What is 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..
What is webapp2? Lightweight Python web framework compatible with Google App Engine’s webapp. webapp2 is a simple. it follows the simplicity of webapp, but improves it in some ways: it adds better URI routing and exception handling, a full featured response object and a more flexible dispatching mechanism.
Spring Framework and webapp2 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, webapp2 provides the following key features:
- Compatible with webapp
- Compatible with latest WebOb
- Full-featured response object
Spring Framework is an open source tool with 30.6K GitHub stars and 19.6K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Spring Framework's open source repository on GitHub.