Apache mina is a network application framework which helps users develop high performance and high scalability network applications easily. it provides an abstract - event-driven - asynchronous api over various transports such as tcp/ip and udp/ip via java nio.

some of the features of apache mina are:
- unified api for various transport types: tcp/udp/rs232/in-vm
- filter interface as an extension point; similar to servlet filters
- low-level and high-level api
- highly customizable thread model
- out-of-the-box ssl / tls and starttls support using java 5 sslengine
- overload shielding & traffic throttling
- unit testability using mock objects
- jmx managability
- stream-based i/o support via streamiohandler
this package contains apache mina 1.x release