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    <h2>Gemini Blueprint 2.1.0.M1 is out</h2>
    <p>
        Gemini 2.1.0.M1 features Spring 4.3.x and requires Java 1.8. gemini blueprint is available via maven central.
        See <a href="https://www.eclipse.org/gemini/blueprint/download/">Download instructions</a>,
        <a href="https://www.eclipse.org/gemini/blueprint/documentation/reference/2.1.0.M1/html/index.html">Reference documentation</a> and the
        <a href="http://git.eclipse.org/c/gemini.blueprint/org.eclipse.gemini.blueprint.git/plain/changelog.txt">Change log</a>
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    <h2>Gemini Blueprint</h2>

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        <p>
            Eclipse Gemini Blueprint is the reference implementation for the <a href="http://www.osgi.org">OSGi
            Alliance</a> Blueprint Service (chapter 121 of the OSGi 4.2 Compendium Specification).
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    <p>
        Gemini Blueprint makes it easy to build Java applications that run in an OSGi framework. By using Gemini
        Blueprint, applications benefit from using a better separation of modules, the ability to dynamically add,
        remove, and update modules in a running system, the ability to deploy multiple versions of a module
        simultaneously (and have clients automatically bind to the appropriate one), and a dynamic service model.
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        Gemini users may also be interested in Eclipse <a href="https://www.eclipse.org/virgo/">Virgo</a>, an open
        source, completely modular, OSGi-based Java application server. Its documentation is considered a supplement to
        Gemini Blueprint as it explains in detail, how OSGi can be used in various development and production scenarios.
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