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   <properties>
     <author email="trustin@apache.org">Trustin Lee</author>
     <title>History</title>
   </properties>

   <body>
     <section name="History">
       <p>
         by Trustin Lee (trustin at apache dot org)
       </p>
       <p>
         In June 2004, I released a network application framework,
         '<a href="http://gleamynode.net/dev/tl-netty2/docs/" target="_blank">Netty2</a>'.
         It was the first network application framework that provides event-based
         architecture in Java community.  It attracted network application
         programmers because of its simplicity and ease of use.  As Netty2
         community grows up, its problems also arose.  Netty2 didn’t work fine
         with text protocols and had severe architectural flaw that prevents users
         from using it for applications with many concurrent clients.
       </p>
       <p>
         Quite large amount of information was collected about what users like
         about Netty2 and what improvements they want from it for 6 months.  It
         was clear they like its ease of use and unit-testability.  They wanted
         support for UDP/IP and text protocols.  I had to invent cleaner, more
         flexible, and more extensible API so that it is easy to learn yet
         full-featured.
       </p>
       <p>
         In September 2004, I joined the Apache Directory team to improve
         another network application framework, Apache SEDA.  It was based
         on generic event model with predefined stages.  I liked its main idea,
         but its core was too abstract to call it a network application
         framework.  I saw many highly abstract but dead frameworks claiming
         they can do whatever users want, and it was one of them.  So I urged
         to create a new network application framework ‘MINA’ which is based on
         my idea on Netty2-NG.
       </p>
       <p>
          Although there was some competition between next generations of
          Apache SEDA, MINA has finally won and it is now the only network
          application framework our team uses.  We have implemented several
          complex protocols such as LDAP, Kerberos, DNS and NTP, and realized
          that implementing protocols can be a lot of fun instead of tedious
          coding.
       </p>
     </section>
   </body>
 </document>
	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
	<document>
	<properties>
	<author email="trustin@apache.org">Trustin Lee</author>
	<title>History</title>
	</properties>

	<body>
	<section name="History">
	<p>
	by Trustin Lee (trustin at apache dot org)
	</p>
	<p>
	In June 2004, I released a network application framework,
	'<a href="http://gleamynode.net/dev/tl-netty2/docs/" target="_blank">Netty2</a>'.
	It was the first network application framework that provides event-based
	architecture in Java community. It attracted network application
	programmers because of its simplicity and ease of use. As Netty2
	community grows up, its problems also arose. Netty2 didn’t work fine
	with text protocols and had severe architectural flaw that prevents users
	from using it for applications with many concurrent clients.
	</p>
	<p>
	Quite large amount of information was collected about what users like
	about Netty2 and what improvements they want from it for 6 months. It
	was clear they like its ease of use and unit-testability. They wanted
	support for UDP/IP and text protocols. I had to invent cleaner, more
	flexible, and more extensible API so that it is easy to learn yet
	full-featured.
	</p>
	<p>
	In September 2004, I joined the Apache Directory team to improve
	another network application framework, Apache SEDA. It was based
	on generic event model with predefined stages. I liked its main idea,
	but its core was too abstract to call it a network application
	framework. I saw many highly abstract but dead frameworks claiming
	they can do whatever users want, and it was one of them. So I urged
	to create a new network application framework ‘MINA’ which is based on
	my idea on Netty2-NG.
	</p>
	<p>
	Although there was some competition between next generations of
	Apache SEDA, MINA has finally won and it is now the only network
	application framework our team uses. We have implemented several
	complex protocols such as LDAP, Kerberos, DNS and NTP, and realized
	that implementing protocols can be a lot of fun instead of tedious
	coding.
	</p>
	</section>
	</body>
	</document>