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Chapter 2 - Basics

In Chapter 1, we had a brief glimpse of Apache MINA. In this chapter we shall have a look at Client/Server Architecture and details on working out a MINA based Server and Client.

We will also expose some very simple Servers and Clients, based on TCP and UDP.

• 2.1 - Application Architecture
  • 2.1.1 - Server Architecture
  • 2.1.2 - Client Architecture
• 2.3 - Sample TCP Client
• 2.4 - Sample UDP Server
• 2.5 - Sample UDP Client
• 2.6 - Summary