> You have to know that we already have AsyncWeb (http), FtpServer, Dns, Ntp, > Dhcp, Kerberos and Ldap implemented on top of MINA (even if those projects > are shared between MINA and Directory, for historical reasons).
DNS, NTP, DHCP and other implementation in ApacheDS prompted me to initiate this. I never knew they existed till I dived into ApacheDS code, and I hit the Holy Grail. The code at ApacheDS helped me a lot in refining my MINA understanding Not completely sure, but snmp4j folks were also planning to use MINA for transport layer. > It would be interesting to give more focus on each of those projects, in > MINA, and to increase the base supported protocols. Another aspect would be > to define some clear API for protocol like LDAP, Kerberos, etc, in a way > it's possible to implement them directly, without having to take care of the > intern of the codec. It's not so easy ... Agree, will be a big challenge by itself. And that's where all the fun is :-)
