OSGi: Blueprint vs. Spring DM

Question

I am a little bit confused about Blueprint and Spring DM:

From what I think is true:

• Spring DM is a framework defined by Spring Source
• B

Answer 1

Blueprint was developed in the OSGi Alliance under the lead of SpringSource/Interface21.

However, if you're looking for a way to leverage OSGi use Declarative Services (DS) with annotations between bundles (services). In my experience, you do not really need the wiring XML when you make small cohesive bundles. DS is much better in working with services than Blueprint/Spring DM since they tend to to want to "hide" the dynamicity while DS just makes it trivial to use.