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narayanank84409
narayanank84409
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September 5, 2017
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WcmUsePojo Vs Sling Models

  • September 5, 2017
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we are updating our current Project to 6.3, If some body can say which one is the best approach.

WcmUsePojo or Sling Models, it will be great help.

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Best answer by puradawid

There is no the best solution for that. It depends on many various things smacdonald2008​ wrote already (with massive exhausing explanation). Although tldr: using Sling Models coexist with using a lot of annotations (like JPA a little, at least for me) and Use classes are rather manual processing from a resource to specific class. Moreover, and forgive my ignorance, Sling Models are using (100% sure) adaptTo method and I am not sure which mechanism Use classes are using (I think its some injections during HTL but I might be wrong). Personally I have got away from Use classes in favour of Sling Models but it was related to that I need mostly plain classes without any processing so essentially few fields with annotations and getters are doing their job well.

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smacdonald2008
smacdonald2008
Level 10
September 5, 2017

See this thread -- good write up -- How To Switch From WCMUsePojo To Sling Models in AEM

Hope this helps.

    smacdonald2008
    smacdonald2008
    Level 10
    September 5, 2017

    Also - both approaches are valid too. Here is a getting started article for HTL and WCMUsePojo -- Scott's Digital Community: Creating an AEM HTML Template Language component that uses the WCMUsePojo class

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    puradawidAccepted solution
    Level 3
    September 5, 2017

    There is no the best solution for that. It depends on many various things smacdonald2008​ wrote already (with massive exhausing explanation). Although tldr: using Sling Models coexist with using a lot of annotations (like JPA a little, at least for me) and Use classes are rather manual processing from a resource to specific class. Moreover, and forgive my ignorance, Sling Models are using (100% sure) adaptTo method and I am not sure which mechanism Use classes are using (I think its some injections during HTL but I might be wrong). Personally I have got away from Use classes in favour of Sling Models but it was related to that I need mostly plain classes without any processing so essentially few fields with annotations and getters are doing their job well.

    briankasingli-4
    briankasingli-4
    Level 2
    August 1, 2018

    I recommend Sling Models because there are very restrictive test libraries that support WCMUsePojo. Sling Models FTW!

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