🆚 Apache Cocoon vs. Grails
- 📈 Grails is five times more popular than Apache Cocoon.
- 🌍 Grails is more popular in Poland, Romania, and Australia.
- 🌍 Apache Cocoon is more popular in Germany, Japan, and Spain.
Statistics based on 4M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Apache Cocoon
GrailsType
Backend framework
Backend framework
About
Apache Cocoon was an open-source 
Java web application framework built around 
XML processing and retired in January 2025.
It used a pipeline architecture with generators, transformers, and serializers to convert XML into outputs such as 
HTML, PDF, and RTF, emphasized separation of content, logic, and presentation, and integrated with XSLT, XQuery, and the Spring framework.
MongoDB
JSONHeadquarters
Wilmington, Delaware, United States
Wilmington, Delaware, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️ Open source
Free ✔️ Open source
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Grails backend framework is 5 times more popular than Apache Cocoon.
Total websites
Market share
Backend Frameworks
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Grails is more popular in Poland, Romania, and Australia, while Apache Cocoon is more popular in Germany, Japan, and Spain.
Poland
Romania
Australia
Germany
Japan
Spain
France
United States
Canada
Austria
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Grails is more popular among sites focused on education and reference, business, and online shopping, while Apache Cocoon is more commonly used on non-profit, advocacy and NGO sites.
Education/Reference
Business
Online Shopping
Travel
Internet Services
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Health
Potentially Unwanted Programs
Software/Hardware
Public Information
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Technologies with similar characteristics.
🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 4,001,723 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.