[mina][ANN] Apache MINA 0.8.2 Released: A Network Application Framework

[Trustin Lee <tr...@gmail.com>]

The Apache Directory team has announced the release of MINA, a network
application framework, version 0.8.2.

Apache MINA (Multipurpose Infrastructure for Network
Applications)<http://directory.apache.org/subprojects/network/>is a
network application framework which helps users develop network
applications easily by providing abstractions of network and protocol I/O
layers.

The MINA project website includes resources such as a PDF Introduction to
MINA <http://directory.apache.org/subprojects/network/branches/0.8/mina.pdf>
<http://directory.apache.org/subprojects/network/mina.pdf> and an online
tutorial <http://wiki.apache.org/directory/MinaTutorial>, which includes
implementation of the echo protocol, as well as an implementation of a
"reverse echo" to show how MINA can process data.

Feture List:

   - Unified and extensible API for various transport types (TCP and UDP)
   - In-VM pipe communication
   - Provides both low-level and high-level API
   - Stream-based asynchronous I/O support
   - Filter interface as an extension point; similar to Servlet filters
   - SSL support via SSLFilter thanks to Java 5 SSLEngine
   - Built-in thread pool
   - Unit-test your protocol without network connection
   - Smooth migration from Netty, a popular NIO framework

Changes since 0.8.1:

   - Several bug fixes

MINA is currently used by the Apache Directory
project<http://directory.apache.org/>and other open source projects.
Do you think you would use it? If so, where?

Cheers,
Trustin
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