Not really. I don't think any framework could make a claim that it is *the* best for any particular situation. I think there are some merits to Stripes' ability to stay out of the way. It can play nice coexisting with other action based frameworks. Right now I am working on a legacy
struts app but we are doing all the new features in Stripes. There was nothing we had to do so that these two frameworks worked together.
What got me hooked was that I spent all my time getting my work done and little to no time dealing with the framework.