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In practice, some people find annotations elegant, while they see XML as verbose, ugly and hard to maintain, yet others find annotations pollute the POJO model.<ref>Panda, Debu; Rahman, Reza; Lane, Derek; (2007). ''EJB 3 in action'', Manning Publications Co., Shelter Island (NY), {{ISBN|978-1-93-398834-4}} (www.manning.com/books/ejb-3-in-action). Chapter 11, ''Deployment descriptors vs. annotations''</ref>

Thus, as an alternative to XML, many frameworks (e.g. Spring, EJB and JPA) allow annotations to be used instead of or in addition to XML. The following shows the same EJB bean as showedshown above but with an annotation added. In this case the XML file is no longer needed:

<syntaxhighlight lang="java">