= Release Notes

== New and Noteworthy

Welcome to the 0.3 release.

* Compliance tests (TBD)
* https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310981&version=12315310[JIRA Release Notes]

== New Components

=== Proxy

The proxy component was added in 0.3.
Proxy allows you to generate proxyies based on interfaces or classes, eg object damping.
Proxy provides a service to both blueprint and JNDI.

== Major updates

=== Application

The application component in 0.3 provides a runtime in which OSGi applications are isolated from each other, and the provisioning support that it requires.
These changes mean that the 0.3 release of aplication is significantly different  from the 0.2 release.

The resolver also supports external bundle repositories in 0.3.

=== Blueprint

Blueprint namespace support has been added.
This makes it possible to look up Blueprint components from Web or  Persistence bundles.

== Modules in this release

* testsupport
* util
* proxy
* quiesce
* application
* blueprint
* transaction
* jpa
* jndi
* jmx
* web
* samples

=== New samples

No new samples but we changed the Blog Sample and Aries Trader samples so that no database initialisation is required prior to running the sample.

=== New Tutorials

None

=== API breaking

None.

=== Known Issues

None.

=== Important changes to consider when upgrading