Genesis of MINA
by Trustin Lee
In June 2004, I released a network application framework, 'Netty2'. It was the first network application framework that provides event-based architecture in Java community. It attracted network application programmers because of its simplicity and ease of use. As the Netty2 community matured, its problems also arose. Netty2 didn't work fine with text protocols and had a critical architectural flaw that prevents users from using it for applications with many concurrent clients.