Apache MINA is a network application framework which helps users develop high performance and high scalability network applications easily. It provides an abstract - event-driven - asynchronous API over various transports such as TCP/IP and UDP/IP via Java NIO. . Some of the features of Apache Mina are: - Unified API for various transport types: TCP/UDP/RS232/In-VM - Filter interface as an extension point; similar to Servlet filters - Low-level and high-level API - Highly customizable thread model - Out-of-the-box SSL / TLS and StartTLS support using Java 5 SSLEngine - Overload shielding & traffic throttling - Unit testability using mock objects - JMX managability - Stream-based I/O support via StreamIoHandler . This package contains Apache Mina 1.X release
