OSGi: Blueprint vs. Spring DM

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Frizz picture Frizz · Apr 4, 2012 · Viewed 21.7k times · Source

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
  • Blueprint is a framework defined by the OSGi Alliance
  • Blueprint has "taken" many of it's ideas from Spring DM

No?

Can we expect that those two frameworks become one in the future (merge)? If not, which one will be the most future-proof?

Answer

Dmytro Pishchukhin picture Dmytro Pishchukhin · Apr 4, 2012

OSGi 4.2 introduces the Blueprint Service specification based on Spring Dynamic Modules project for which Spring DM (2.x) is the Reference Implementation (RI).

In short: Blueprint is a specification, Spring DM is an implementation of Blueprint API

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