OSGI Apache Felix IPOJO : Annotations or pure MAVEN?

Question

I'm jumping in OSGI with FELIX IPOJO. According to the tutorials there are two approaches possible:

• use annotations to define services and entry points. FELIX jar's are added more or less manually.
• use the MAVEN approach and define services and entry points in pom.xml

Am I free to choose ? Are there pro's and con's ?

Thanks for any hint ! Gerry

Answer 1

You are free to choose, but I would recommend the annotation providing an easier development model. The pure XML approach was made initially to support Java 1.4.