Aries will deliver a set of pluggable Java components enabling an enterprise OSGi application programming model.

Aries entered incubation on September 22, 2009.

There are currently no issues requiring IPMC or Board attention .

The following sub-components are actively being developed:

• Application
• Blueprint
• JMX
• JPA

Several new sample applications have been developed to demonstrate the Aries functionality.

A new component has been created to feed experience into the OSGi standards process.

There has been a lot of activity on the mailing list this year indicating a vibrant community is being built.

One new committer, Rex Wang, has been added. Redhat have started to participate in the project.

We have begun the process of doing a 0.1.0 release and aim to release shortly.

Top 2 or 3 things to resolve before graduation:

• Build community
• Create a release
• Address project scope concerns raised during acceptance vote