Status of Aries

[Bengt Rodehav <be...@rodehav.com>]

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

Re: Status of Aries

[Bengt Rodehav <be...@rodehav.com>]

Thanks for your reply Timothy,

Sounds like Aries is a lot more mature then its version numbering indicates
then. Judging from your reply it should definitely be up for production use.
It might be useful if this was clarified on your web site. If Geronimo and
WebSphere AS uses Aries you should brag about since it gives a substantial
credibility to the project.

Thanks,

/Bengt

2010/9/7 Timothy Ward <ti...@hotmail.com>

>
> 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: bengt@rodehav.com
> > To: aries-user@incubator.apache.org
> >
> > 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
>
>

RE: Status of Aries

[Timothy Ward <ti...@hotmail.com>]

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: bengt@rodehav.com
> To: aries-user@incubator.apache.org
>
> 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