This page compares OTrunk to other frameworks that are similar.

Spring

Spring is an application platform. Here is a quote from the web site:

The most complete lightweight container, providing centralized, automated configuration and wiring of your application objects. The container is non-invasive, capable of assembling a complex system from a set of loosely-coupled components (POJOs) in a consistent and transparent fashion.

The "centralized automated configuration" is typically xml file which configures POJOs.

• single schema xml

XMLEncoder

JAXB

EMF

EMF the eciplse modeling framework supports many of the goals in the Object level.

Modello

Is used by maven it also configures objects with xml.