In Aries blueprint we have some custom annotations that can be used
instead of the xml configs.
As far as I know these annotations are rarely used. In fact I do not
know anyone using them in production. I also have not seen any questions
about them recently.
As a replacement there is the blueprint-maven-plugin. It support
standard JEE annotations as well as spring annotations and creates
blueprint xml from annotations at build time.
Dominik has put quite some effort into this annotations support recently
and I know they are used by quite a few people in production. Since the
newest release there is even support for extensions. So users can now
define their own custom annotations and map them to xml.
So I think we could safely deprecate the old annotations and remove them
from the current trunk.
What do you think?
Christian
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Christian Schneider
http://www.liquid-reality.de
Open Source Architect
http://www.talend.com
