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.

Apache MINA is often called:

  • NIO framework library,
  • client server framework library, or
  • a networking socket library

Apache MINA comes with a core project and many subprojects :

  • Apache MINA : The MINA framework, on which the sub-projects are based

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