Just getting started in Spring and my preference is XML config over annotations. Correct or not?

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Published on 2012-05-23T13:53:29Z Indexed on 2012/06/29 21:24 UTC
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After having read through some of the Spring docs my inclination is towards using a XML config file rather than annotations on the classes themselves. My reasoning is that by doing so you avoid tying your POJOs to a particular framework.

Based on your experience with Spring, are there any advantages that XML configuration have over an annotation based configuration, and if not what are the disadvantages?

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