Apache MINA 0.9.0

Apache MINA comes from Multipurpose Infrastructure for Network Applications and is a network application framework which helps users develop high performance and high scalability network applications easily.
Main features:
- 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)
Enhancements:
- This release introduces a new API with an integrated I/O layer and protocol layer.
- New features include traffic control, StartTLS, out-of-the-box protocol codecs, and Spring framework integration.