Play alternatives and related libraries

Based on the "Web Frameworks" category

• Spring Boot

  10.0 9.9 L5 Play VS Spring Boot

  Microframework which simplifies the development of new Spring applications.

• Spring

  10.0 9.8 L2 Play VS Spring

  Provides many packages ranging from dependency injection to aspect-oriented programming to security.

• Blade

  8.8 8.9 L1 Play VS Blade

  Lightweight, modular framework which aims to be elegant and simple.

• Grails

  8.3 9.4 L2 Play VS Grails

  Groovy framework with the aim to provide a highly productive environment by favoring convention over configuration, no XML and support for mixins.

• Ninja

  7.8 7.4 L4 Play VS Ninja

  Full stack web framework.

• Vaadin

  7.6 9.0 L2 Play VS Vaadin

  Event-driven framework build on top of GWT. Uses server-side architecture with Ajax on the client-side.

• Ratpack

  7.4 8.8 L4 Play VS Ratpack

  Set of libraries that facilitate fast, efficient, evolvable and well tested HTTP applications.

• PrimeFaces

  7.0 9.7 Play VS PrimeFaces

  JSF framework which has a free and a commercial version with support. Provides several frontend components.

• Google Web Toolkit

  6.8 6.0 L1 Play VS Google Web Toolkit

  Toolbox which includes a Java-to-JavaScript compiler for client-side code, XML parser, API for RPC, JUnit integration, internationalization support and widgets for the GUI.

• Bootique

  6.7 8.1 L4 Play VS Bootique

  Minimally opinionated framework for runnable apps.

• Jooby

  5.9 8.4 L3 Play VS Jooby

  Scalable, fast and modular micro framework which offers multiple programming models.

• Apache Wicket

  5.7 8.8 L3 Play VS Apache Wicket

  Component-based web application framework similar to Tapestry with a stateful GUI.

• Pippo

  5.5 8.0 L4 Play VS Pippo

  Small, highly modularized Sinatra-like framework.

• Takes

  5.1 8.5 Play VS Takes

  Opinionated web framework which is build around the concepts of True Object-Oriented Programming and immutablity.

• ZK

  4.7 9.5 L1 Play VS ZK

  ZK is a highly productive Java framework for building amazing enterprise web and mobile applications

• Firefly

  4.5 8.8 Play VS Firefly

  Asynchronous framework for rapid development of high-performance web application.

• Baratine

  2.8 0.0 L2 Play VS Baratine

  Toolkit for building distributed and reactive applications for multiple environments, either standalone or embedded.

• mangoo I/O

  2.7 9.4 L4 Play VS mangoo I/O

  An Intuitive, Lightweight, High Performance Full Stack Java Web Framework.

• jwt

  2.7 7.0 Play VS jwt

  Java Web Toolkit

• jetbrick-webmvc

  2.4 0.0 Play VS jetbrick-webmvc

  jetbrick web mvc framework

• Free enterprise Java CMS

  2.3 6.6 L2 Play VS Free enterprise Java CMS

  Free enterprise Java CMS

• Apache Tapestry

  2.2 0.0 Play VS Apache Tapestry

  Component-oriented framework for creating dynamic, robust, highly scalable web applications.

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