ItemOrientedTasklet - Extend or Advice?

Is it better to simply apply advice (using spring-aop) to the ItemOrientedTasklet to do your processing, or should one extend it?

If I extend, then I need to write code to handle retries and such using my own ItemReaderRetryCallback handler (since it's private in the ItemOrientedTasklet implementation).

Thanks.

That's a very general question, so it's hard to give a useful answer. If you describe your usecase we can give suggestions.

Btw. in M5 you can choose from ItemOrientedStep and TaskletStep.