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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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| - Asynchronous Services and Promises Specification |
| - 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. The OSGi R6 Enterprise Specification can be found here: |
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| [http://www.osgi.org/Download/Release6](http://www.osgi.org/Download/Release6) |
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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 Blueprint 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. |
