Thanks a lot.
> -----Original-----
> Sender: Harald Wellmann [mailto:[email protected]]
> Date: 2011/6/13 17:12
> Receiver: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Blue Print VS Spring DM, which one should we choice?
>
> The OSGi Enterprise Specification defines a Blueprint Service. Apache
> Aries and Eclipse Gemini are two independent projects providing
> implementations of this specification, and a lot more.
>
> Spring DM is discontinued and has become the basis of Eclipse Gemini
> Blueprint.
>
> If you're interested in a tight integration with vanilla Spring then
> you'll probably find it easier to work with Gemini Blueprint.
>
> The most important but too poorly documented fact is, Gemini Blueprint
> includes the entire set of basic Spring bundles, and all Spring features
> like declarative transactions by annotation and AOP can be configured
> from blueprint.xml using custom XML namespaces.
>
> In other words, for basic dependency injection and interaction with the
> OSGi service registry, you use the standardized Blueprint XML syntax
> instead of Spring <bean> elements, and all other Spring features not
> part of the Blueprint Specification are available as Blueprint
> extensions via custom namespaces.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Harald
