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MINA based Application Architecture Page edited by Ashish Paliwal Updated the App Arch image from Emm's presentation Updated the App Arch image from Emm's presentation Introduction Well it's the question most asked, How does a MINA based application look like? In this article lets see what's the architecture of MINA based application. Have tried to gather the information from presentations based on MINA. A Bird's Eye View Lets take a deeper dive into the details The image is from Emmanuel Lécharny presentation MINA in real life (ApacheCon EU 2009) Broadly, MINA based applications are divided into 3 layers I/O Service - Performs actual I/O I/O Filter Chain - Filters/Transforms bytes into desired Data Structures and vice-versa I/O Handler - Here resides the actual business logic So, how to create a MINA based Application Create I/O service - Choose from already available Services (*Acceptor) or create your own Create Filter Chain - Choose from already existing Filters or create a custom Filter for transforming request/response Create I/O Handler - Write business logic, on handling different messages Creating a MINA application is this simple Change Notification Preferences View Online | View Change | Add Comment