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WcmUsePojo Vs Sling Models

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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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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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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...

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