Here's the January 2008 board report for the Apache MINA project. (http://mina.apache.org)
Releases ======== We cut four minor releases: 1.0.7, 1.0.8, 1.1.4 and 1.1.5. The new releases contain backward-compatible minor improvements and bug fixes. Community ========= FtpServer project has been graduated from the Incubator into the MINA project. It is in progress to merge the two web sites into one seamlessly, and other infrastructure-related changes are being discussed. Niklas Gustavsson joined the MINA PMC as the lead of the FtpServer project. Jeff Genender, a member of the foundation and a MINA enthusiast, joined the MINA PMC. His primary focus is to implement high performance asynchronous HTTP client implementation, along with HTTP server implementation. These client-server implementations are not a stand-alone application but a library on top of the MINA framework, so it will be the best fit together. There was a serious discussion about changing logging framework of MINA 2 in the mailing list, and we concluded to stick to the current logging framework (i.e. SLF4J). Instead, Trustin Lee will provide a tool that converts a JAR which depends on a logging framework A into a new JAR which depends on a logging framework B. Maarten Bosteels is also working with SLF4J team to make it more friendly with more logging frameworks such as java.util.logging, which will simplify MINA logging significantly. The bottom line is that we will be able to resolve every community member's concern with MINA 2 hopefully. The community itself seems to be growing up and up steadily. Please refer to the markmail.org traffic graph: http://mina.markmail.org/ We are seeing decreased traffic on December 2007, but it's probably due to holidays. Features ======== Julien Vermillard and Trustin Lee finished implementation of APR transport. This means MINA now can utilize ASF's high performance cross platform library for network operations. It seems to perform 10% better than the Sun epoll NIO provider. Switching from NIO to APR takes just a few minutes. JMX integration has been rewritten, which means all MINA-based applications are manageable via JMX very easily. Synchronous reader API has been implemented. MINA is basically an asynchronous framework so some client developers will benefit from this new feature. The OSGi integration issue reported in the last report has been resolved. Issues ====== We need to finish migration of FtpServer and release MINA 2.0.0-M1 this quarter to catch up the users' demand. We might need more committers who has good will for keeping MINA project run. Cheers, Trustin -- what we call human nature is actually human habit -- http://gleamynode.net/ -- PGP Key ID: 0x0255ECA6
