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| # Chapter 3 - IoService |
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| A **MINA** _IoService_ - as seen in the [application architecture](../ch2-basics/ch2.1-application-architecture.html) chapter, is the base class supporting all the **IO** services, either from the server side or the client side. |
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| It will handle all the interaction with your application, and with the remote peer, send and receive messages, manage sessions, conections, etc. |
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| It's an interface, which is implemented as an _IoAcceptor_ for the server side, and _IoConnector_ for the client side. |
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| We will expose the interface in those chapters : |
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| * [3.1 - IoService Introduction](ch3.1-io-service.html) |
| * [3.2 - IoService Details](ch3.2-io-service-details.html) |
| * [3.3 - IoAcceptor](ch3.3-acceptor.html) |
| * [3.4 - IoConnector](ch3.4-connector.html) |
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