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<h1 id="features">Features</h1>
<p>MINA is a simple yet full-featured network application framework which provides:</p>
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<li>Unified API for various transport types:
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<li>TCP/IP &amp; UDP/IP via Java NIO</li>
<li>Serial communication (RS232) via RXTX</li>
<li>In-VM pipe communication</li>
<li>You can implement your own!</li>
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<li>Filter interface as an extension point; similar to Servlet filters</li>
<li>Low-level and high-level API:
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<li>Low-level: uses ByteBuffers</li>
<li>High-level: uses user-defined message objects and codecs</li>
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<li>Highly customizable thread model:
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<li>Single thread</li>
<li>One thread pool</li>
<li>More than one thread pools (i.e. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061208181754/http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~mdw/papers/mdw-phdthesis.pdf">SEDA</a>)</li>
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<li>Out-of-the-box SSL &middot; TLS &middot; StartTLS support using Java 5 <code>SSLEngine</code></li>
<li>Overload shielding &amp; traffic throttling</li>
<li>Unit testability using mock objects</li>
<li>JMX managability</li>
<li>Stream-based I/O support via <code>StreamIoHandler</code></li>
<li>Integration with well known containers such as PicoContainer and Spring</li>
<li>Smooth migration from Netty, an ancestor of Apache MINA.</li>
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