Hi Bengt, Whilst I agree that 0.2 seems a long way below 1.0, this is actually the second release of Apache Aries, and I know for a fact that Aries code is currently in active use in Apache Geronimo and IBM's WebSphere Application Server. I'm sure that there are others using it too, and if so I'd love to hear about it!
The 1.0 release of Apache Aries will most likely be shortly after we graduate to a top level project, which we're looking at doing over the next few months. Also, we have an active development community, so if you do have any problems there should be plenty of people to help/bugfix. As for your areas of interest, the Aries JPA runtime is well tested with OpenJPA 2.0.0 (previous versions can be made to work with patches). EclipseLink should also work, although it is a less well tested path. The blueprint and transactions runtimes offer well integrated support with the OSGi blueprint and JTA service specifications, as well as some significant integration improvements on top. As a whole I can recommend the combination. Regards, Tim ________________________________ > Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 08:56:02 +0200 > Subject: Status of Aries > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > I'm new to Aries and find it a very interesting project. Given that the > release number is still far below 1.0 and the project has an > "incubating" status, I'm curious about the status of the project. Is > Aries mature enough for production use? Who else is using it in > production? > > My main interest (at this point) is in JPA (with OpenJPA or EclipseLink > - haven't decided yet), transaction and blueprint although I'll > probably look into the other parts as well. > > Thanks, > > /Bengt
