Ashish's Tech Blog » Netty http://www.ashishpaliwal.com/blog From Programmer, For Programmers Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:04:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 MINA vs Netty – A User’s perspective [Part 2] http://www.ashishpaliwal.com/blog/2009/06/mina-vs-netty-a-users-perspective-part-2/ http://www.ashishpaliwal.com/blog/2009/06/mina-vs-netty-a-users-perspective-part-2/#comments Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:08:10 +0000 ashish http://www.ashishpaliwal.com/blog/?p=276 Back with the series. Its going to be quick and small post. Would focus around similarity on these two frameworks

  • Both are NIO frameworks :-)
  • Trustin has been part of both Frameworks, lately contributing to Netty (Thanks to Emmanuel for pointing this out)
  • Both uses Annotation, though in MINA this is more in area of MINA State Machine, whereas Netty, has used annotations for configuring the IO Chains as well.
  • Both Frameworks are working aggressively towards improving their Documentation

Hmm.. that's it for this post. Will be back soon with more

]]> http://www.ashishpaliwal.com/blog/2009/06/mina-vs-netty-a-users-perspective-part-2/feed/ 0 MINA vs Netty – A User’s perspective [Part 1] http://www.ashishpaliwal.com/blog/2009/04/mina-vs-netty-a-users-perspective-part-1/ http://www.ashishpaliwal.com/blog/2009/04/mina-vs-netty-a-users-perspective-part-1/#comments Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:40:46 +0000 ashish http://www.ashishpaliwal.com/blog/?p=263 Have came across this topic a lot, which is better MINA or Netty. Wanted to see what works out well from a User Perspective, thought about trying both Frameworks, from an End Users perspective. This series shall not just find difference, but find similarities in both frameworks as well.


Before I continue, the opinion expressed here are purely mine, and other can tend to disagree. I am a MINA committer myself, so may have a little bias towards MINA. Shall try to keep my discussion unbiased, as much as possible. Having used MINA for a while, have a natural comfort with the framework.

What to Expect

Shall try to evaluate both the frameworks, as if I need to use them in one of my own projects and try to provide rational for my thoughts. User comments shall provide more indepth to the posts. The details shall be covered as I move along on my journey. This post is just the beginning.

Latest Releases

MINA - MINA 2.0 M4
Netty - 3.0.2 GA

Community Activity


Having an active community in an Open Source project is very important. It assures that the project is actively being looked after.

Source of Data


MINA - http://mina.markmail.org/
Netty - http://netty.markmail.org/

MINA community is very active, and scores well above Netty. Though Trustin is very active in Netty, and I hope Netty community shall have active support from more users/developers.

Documentation


MINA and Netty both have sufficient documentation to start with, but there is need for improvement. Netty Documentation is better organized. MINA Documentation needs a better organization. (Blame me for this, I am supposed to take care of this).

Coming up Next


Working of examples on both the frameworks and try to come up with Application Architectures soon.

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