Netty vs Apache MINA

Question

They both provide roughly the same functionality. Which one should I choose to develop my high-performance TCP server? What are the pros & cons?

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Answer 1

In Netty site you can find some performance reports. As expected :-) they point out Netty as the framework with the best performance.

I never used Netty, but I already used MINA to implement a TCP protocol. The implementation of encoding and decoding was easy, but the implementation of the state machine was not so easy. MINA provides some classes to aid you when implementing the state machine, but I found them kind of hard to use. In the end we decided to ditch MINA and implement the protocol from scratch, and surprisingly we ended with a faster server.