| Title: 1.3 Features |
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| # Features |
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| MINA is a simple yet full-featured network application framework which provides: |
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| * Unified API for various transport types: |
| * TCP/IP & UDP/IP via Java NIO |
| * Serial communication (RS232) via RXTX |
| * In-VM pipe communication |
| * You can implement your own! |
| * Filter interface as an extension point; similar to Servlet filters |
| * Low-level and high-level API: |
| * Low-level: uses ByteBuffers |
| * High-level: uses user-defined message objects and codecs |
| * Highly customizable thread model: |
| * Single thread |
| * One thread pool |
| * More than one thread pools (i.e. SEDA) |
| * Out-of-the-box SSL · TLS · StartTLS support using Java 5 SSLEngine |
| * Overload shielding & traffic throttling |
| * Unit testability using mock objects |
| * JMX managability |
| * Stream-based I/O support via StreamIoHandler |
| * Integration with well known containers such as PicoContainer and Spring |
| * Smooth migration from Netty, an ancestor of Apache MINA. |
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