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# Apache Aries

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:

  - 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

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:

[http://www.osgi.org/Download/Release6](http://www.osgi.org/Download/Release6)

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.