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iPOJO does not use XML at runtime. The manipulation process replaces the XML metadata by an internal format (between LISP and XML). The XML metadata are translated and written inside the bundle manifest. Moreover, the component type declarations (<component> XML element) are completed with manipulation metadata. Those metadata are computed during the bytecode manipulation and avoid using reflection at runtime (requiring loading the class) to get class elements (such as available fields, methods, implemented interfaces, and so on).
If you want to see how XML metadata are tortured, just open the manifest file of a manipulated bundle, and look at the iPOJO-COMPONENTS entry...