What is the difference between Spring Struts Hibernate JavaServer Faces Tapestry

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May I know what is the difference between -   Spring Struts Struts 2 Hibernate JavaServer Faces JavaServer Pages Tapestry   Are these technologies framework complementary to each other  Or they are alternatives to each other  after I use one of them  then I don t need to use the other    Thanks

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Spring is an IoC container  at least the core of Spring  and is used to wire things using dependency injection  Spring provides additional services like transaction management and seamless integration of various other technologies  Struts is an action-based presentation framework  but don t use it for a new development   Struts 2 is an action-based presentation framework  the version 2 of the above  created from a merge of WebWork with Struts   Hibernate is an object-relational mapping tool  a persistence framework  JavaServer Faces is component-based presentation framework  JavaServer Pages is a view technology used by all mentioned presentation framework for the view  Tapestry is another component-based presentation framework    So  to summarize    Struts 2  JSF  Tapestry  and Wicket  Spring MVC  Stripes  are presentation frameworks  If you use one of them  you don t use another  Hibernate is a persistence framework and is used to persist Java objects in a relational database  Spring can be used to wire all this together and to provide declarative transaction management    I don t want to make things more confusing but note that Java EE 6 provides modern  standardized and very nice equivalent of the above frameworks  JSF 2 0 and Facelets for the presentation  JPA 2 0 for the persistence  Dependency Injection  etc  For a new development  this is IMO a serious option  Java EE 6 is a great stack   See also   Choosing a Java Web Framework now  Java - JDBC alternatives JEE6 vs  Spring 3 stack What to learn for making Java web applications in Java EE 6

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Spring is a light weight and open source framework created by Rod Johnson in 2003  Spring is a complete and a modular framework  Spring framework can be used for all layer implementations for a real time application or spring can be used for the development of particular layer of a real time application   Struts is an open-source web application framework for developing Java EE web applications  It uses and extends the Java Servlet API to encourage developers to adopt a model   view   controller  MVC  architecture  It was originally created by Craig McClanahan and donated to the Apache Foundation in May  2000   Listed below is the comparison chart of difference between Spring and Strut Framework

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Spring is an application framework which deals with IOC  Inversion of Control    Struts 2 is a web application MVC framework which deals with actions   Hibernate is an ORM  Object-Relational Mapping  that deals with persistent data

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In hibernate you need not bother about how to create table in SQL and you need not to remember connection  prepared statement like that data is persisted in a database  So  basically it makes a developer s life easy

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Difference between Spring  Struts and Hibernate are following    Spring is an Application Framework but Struts and hibernate is not  Spring and Hibernate are Light weighted but Struts 2 is not  Spring and Hibernate has layered architecture but Struts 2 doesn t  Spring and Hibernate support loose coupling but Struts 2 doesn t  Struts 2 and Hibernate have tag library but Spring doesn t  Spring and Hibernate have easy integration with ORM technologies but Struts doesn t  Struts 2 has easy integration with client-side technologies but Spring and Hibernate don t have

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Tapestry pages and components are simple  POJO s Plain Old Java Object  consisting of getters and setters for easy access to Java language features

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Generally     Hibernate is used for handling database operations  There is a rich set of database utility functionality  which reduces your number of lines of code  Especially you have to read  Annotation of hibernate  It is an ORM framework and persistence layer   Spring provides a rich set of the Injection based working mechanism  Currently  Spring is well-known  You have to also read about Spring AOP  There is a bridge between Struts and Hibernate  Mainly Spring provides this kind of utility   Struts2 provides action based programming  There are a rich set of Struts tags  Struts prove action based programming so you have to maintain all the relevant control of your view   In Addition  Tapestry is a different framework for Java  In which you have to handle only  tml  template file   You have to create two main files for any class  One is JAVA class and another one is its template  Both names are same  Tapestry automatically calls related classes

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You can see the overview and ranking for yourself here  Hibernate is an ORM  so you can use either struts Hiberante or spring hibernate to build a web app  Different web frameworks and many are alternatives to each other

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In short   Struts is for Front-end development of website   Hibernate is for back-end development of website  Spring is for full stack development of website in which      Spring MVC Model-View-Controller  is for Front-end      ORM  JDBC for Data Access   Integration backend   etc

[java] What is the difference between Spring, Struts, Hibernate, JavaServer Faces, Tapestry?

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