CQ5 Spring integration

Question

Is the any way to perform integration CQ5 platform with Spring framework? I would like to use Spring IoC capabilities to make my code more clear and efficient.

UPDATE

Hello againg, seems that I found solution. Guys here developed Slice framework that really redices amound of code and made CQ5 development easier.

Answer 1

You probably want to check out Eclipse Gemini Blueprint, or it's original incarnation Spring Dynamic Modules. The Blueprint project basically gives you an easy way to create Spring enabled bundles in an OSGi environment.

As shsteimer mentions, Spring distributions before 3.2.0 were OSGi bundles, so could be dropped into an OSGi environment and you could probably use them directly. Spring 3.2.0 bundles and above are now available through the SpringSource ERB. However, Blueprint gets around or helps with some of the boilerplate OSGi stuff that you would otherwise have to do.