Let's not confuse blueprint with spring. Blueprint is a declarative way to work with OSGi services and Spring is a framework for creating applications. I don't think that Aries has the same focus with Spring but with SpringDM.
You can always use both, if you have to go with Spring. If I had to use Spring, I would use it only where its necessary and for managing services etc I would use Aries. Example: In Cellar 90% of the modules use Aries, but there is a single module that uses Spring/SpringDM. We don't have any problem with that. -- *Ioannis Canellos* * FuseSource <http://fusesource.com> ** Blog: http://iocanel.blogspot.com ** Apache Karaf <http://karaf.apache.org/> Committer & PMC Apache ServiceMix <http://servicemix.apache.org/> Committer Apache Gora <http://incubator.apache.org/gora/> Committer *
