Hi, On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 6:37 PM, John Plocher <john.ploc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Newbie question: What's the difference/relationship between netty and > mina? They share many similarities, but mina seems stuck trying to get its > docs and examples updated from 1.0 to 2.0, while netty comes across as more > active and up to date. I'm new to both, and having a blast with mina, but > I'm wondering where the community energy is focused...
Here is my (I am a former Mina user and now Netty user) perception: Trustin Lee, who was the main driving force behind Mina, left the project some years ago because of attitude issues with some other members of the project (in a community, things like this happen) and started Netty to further push his ideas of a good java network library. Since then, because I was using the "Mina core" (for writing my own codecs) and not its subprojects like ftpd, sshd and so on, Mina was pretty much dead to me, IMO most of the visible real development (new features, API improvements) took place in the subprojects which doesn't matter to me. Netty, on the other hand, started with an amazing pace and is still delivering new releases with new features every few months. As far as I know, Netty is not a Jboss paid project, Trustin claims to take care of it in its spare time, also there are some other people working from time to time on it, so what Emmanuel said is supposedly not true. From my users perspective, Netty is clearly the better choice because it has a cleaner API and is much more documented. (btw. I am not paid to write this ;) I just think Netty is really useful) hth, christian > -John > > > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 5:11 AM, Christian Migowski > <chrismf...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hi Lohith, >> >> you may want to give Netty (http://jboss.org/netty/documentation.html) >> a try. It has excellent documentation (mostly very convenient in the >> javadoc) and also ships with easy-to-understand examples for Proxy >> servers and http codecs (which are also included). >> >> >
