🆚 Apache Cocoon vs. Spring
- 📈 Spring is much more popular than Apache Cocoon.
- 🌍 Spring is more popular in all countries.
Apache Cocoon
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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.
Spring is a Java framework for building enterprise-grade applications.
It offers a comprehensive ecosystem with features like dependency injection, aspect-oriented programming, transaction management, and support for various data access technologies, including JDBC, JPA, and Hibernate.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- ⭐ 10th most popular in Poland in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in Korea in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🔥 15th most popular in China in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🔥 16th most popular in India in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🔥 16th most popular in Australia in the Backend Frameworks category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
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Java Portlet🗃️ 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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.