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| # July 2011 Board report |
| Apache Aries delivers a set of pluggable Java components enabling an enterprise OSGi application programming model. |
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| Users have asked for a release of the Aries JPA bundles and hence the snapshot bundles it depends on (Aries Util) - in particular due to: |
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| * the new 'runtime enhancer' that will mean entities can be enhanced as they are used in the runtime, rather than at development time. |
| * the support for EclipseLink (in addition to Apache OpenJPA) as a JPA provider |
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| The release process has just started. This will exercise our per bundle release process adhering to the OSGi Alliance Semantic Versioning recommendations. |
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| There have also been enhancements to the Aries JMX (whiteboard pattern) and Aries Subsystem (to use OSGi Core 4.3). |
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| Apache Geronimo, which consumes Apache Aries to implement its enterprise OSGi application programming model, has been readying a release. The performance enhancements in the Aries Proxy module which now makes use of the new Weaving Hooks OSGi specification, has had a few teething problems for Geronimo. All known problems are now resolved. |
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| ##Project Branding Board Report Checklist |
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| We've been reminded of this work and are reporting this checklist for the first time. We appreciate we're a bit behind the curve here, and are doing our best to catch up. |
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| * Project Website Basics : homepage is aries.apache.org (done) |
| * Project Naming And Descriptions : use proper Apache forms, describe product, etc. (pending) |
| * Website Navigation Links : navbar links included, link to www.apache.org included (pending - feather link done) |
| * Trademark Attributions : attribution for all ASF marks included in footers, etc. (pending) |
| * Logos and Graphics : include TM, use consistent product logo on your site (pending) |
| * Project Metadata : DOAP file checkedin and up to date (pending - some minor updates needed) |
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| ##Community update |
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| Roughly same number of dev@ subscribers at 119, user@ 148 subscribers up 14 since last report. John Ross was voted in as a committer after his significant work to the 'subsystem' module. |
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| There are no board level issues. |