Re: Some Apache Mina and Apache Groovy blog posts

[Emmanuel Lécharny <el...@gmail.com>]

Hi Paul,



On 30/04/2026 15:03, Paul King wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Congrats on the recent releases! And I saw the CVE follow-up (more later).
> 
> I created two blog posts that I thought could promote both our projects:
> 
> Part 1: Streaming Servers with Apache MINA and Groovy 6
> https://groovy.apache.org/blog/groovy-mina
> 
> Part 2: Fanning out across a Fleet with Apache MINA SSHD and Groovy 6
> https://groovy.apache.org/blog/groovy-mina-sshd
> 
> These are marked "draft" on our site, which means they are published but
> don't appear in indexes and such, so you have to know the URL to find them.
> 
> There is also a shared GitHub project with source code:
> https://github.com/paulk-asert/groovy-mina
> 
> In Groovy 6 (we are about to release an alpha-1, so a final release is
> still some time away), we have added a bunch of async and parallel
> features. I thought some blog posts highlighting those features would be
> nice. Then, I saw the recent Apache MINA announcement and thought combining
> them might make an interesting read. So, I created the above posts. I used
> a bit of AI assistance to create the examples and wording in the posts, and
> I need to correct some of its wording and tone. I will have no problems
> doing that on the Groovy side.
> 
> What I am l less confident about is the MINA side. The code runs but it
> might not be good from a MINA design point of view and I'd like to shine
> the best light on MINA that I can. So, if anyone has the time, I'd greatly
> appreciate a quick glance over the MINA parts. Or if I should just RTFM,
> any pointers to what sections in the user guide would be greatly
> appreciated.

AFAICT, you captured the essence of MINA in your code: simplicity.

You might want to add the session.secured() event that is sent when a 
TLS session has been negociated.
> 
> Also, a question on versions. I saw the potential for an expedited 2.2.7
> release, so I'll wait for that before final publishing, but should I be
> looking at the upcoming milestone versions? Are these what you want to
> promote at this point?

2.2.7 is out since yesterday midnight ;-)

> 
> Cheers, Paul.
> 

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