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 many subprojects :
- AsyncWeb : An HTTP server build on top of MINA asynchronous framework
- FtpServer : A FTP server
- SSHd : A Java library supporting the SSH protocol
- Vysper : An XMPP server