[AlexandreSH]

Hi, everyone!

I have come upon a conceptual problem with OSGi.

First, I'll tell what I need. I need a factory that will create some instances. Each instance has it's own configuration and all instances provide a service.

I've read about the EMailFetcher example in the Configuration Admin Specification and it turned out to be just my case. So I was happy and thought that I should use ManagedServiceFactory and all the things associated with it.

Later, however I've read the Declarative Services Specification. And that is where it began. I can't feel the difference between the ManagedServiceFactory (from Configuration Admin) and ComponentFactory (from Declarative Services).

If anyone could tell me the difference between them (for example why can't I use ComponentFactory in the EMailFetcher example), I would be very-very thankful.

Thanks in advance...