type: mina title: MINA Home slug: index

Welcome to Apache MINA

Overview

Apache MINA is a network application framework which helps users develop high performance and high scalability network applications easily. It provides an abstract {{< html “·” >}} event-driven · asynchronous API over various transports such as TCP/IP and UDP/IP via Java NIO.

Apache MINA is often called:

  • NIO framework {{< html “·” >}} library,
  • client {{< html “·” >}} server framework {{< html “·” >}} library, or
  • a networking {{< html “·” >}} socket library.

However, it's much more than that. Please take a look around the list of the features that enable rapid network application development, and what people says about MINA.

Please grab yourself a 2.0.x download or a 2.1.x download, try our Quick Start Guide, surf our FAQ or start join us on our community