Features

MINA is a simple yet full-featured network application framework which provides:

• Unified API for various transport types:
  • TCP/IP
  • UDP/IP
  • In-VM pipe communication
  • You can implement your own!
• Low-level and high-level API:
  • Low-level: uses ByteBuffers
  • High-level: uses user-defined message objects and codecs
• Stream-based I/O support via StreamIoHandler
• Filter interface as an extension point; similar to Servlet filters
  • SSL support via SSLFilter thanks to Java 5 SSLEngine
  • Thread pools are implemented as filters so that users can customize thread model.
• Unit testability using mock objects,
• JMX managability, (coming soon)
• Traffic throttling, (coming soon)
• Overload shielding, (coming soon)
• Integration with well known containers such as Spring and OSGi, (coming soon)
• Smooth migration from Netty, a popular NIO framework. (See Netty Tutorial)