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| # Apache Aries |
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| The Aries project consists of a set of pluggable Java components enabling |
| an enterprise OSGi application programming model. This includes |
| implementations (and extensions) of the following Enterprise OSGi specifications: |
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| - Blueprint Specification |
| - JTA Transaction Services Specification |
| - JMX Management Model Specification |
| - JNDI Services Specification |
| - JPA Service Specification |
| - Service Loader Mediator Specification |
| - Subsystem Service Specification |
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| The specifications are defined in the OSGi Alliance Enterprise Expert Group (EEG) for deployment to a variety of OSGi |
| based runtimes. |
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| The OSGi R5 Enterprise Specification can be found here: |
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| [http://www.osgi.org/Download/Release5](http://www.osgi.org/Download/Release5) |
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| To understand the complete scope of the Aries project, see the Aries |
| proposal document on the [incubator wiki](http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/AriesProposal). |
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| To understand how to _use_ Aries components, take a look at the [BlueprintHelloWorldTutorial](documentation/tutorials/blueprinthelloworldtutorial.html) |
| pages which guides you through how to build the Aries code, provides |
| sample applications and describes how to set up an environment in which to |
| run the consuming application. |
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| The Aries project provides enterprise OSGi componentry such as the Blueprint container |
| and projects to integrate enterprise technologies such as JTA, JNDI and JPA |
| into an OSGi environment to make these available to OSGi bundles. Some |
| Aries components, such as the Aries Blueprint container, require nothing |
| more than an OSGi framework (such as Equinox or Felix) to run on; others |
| are intended to be integrated into application server or integration |
| runtimes such as Apache ServiceMix or Apache Geronimo. |
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| Continuous builds of the Aries project are available for download from [http://builds.apache.org/hudson/job/Aries/](http://builds.apache.org/hudson/job/Aries/) |