Hi Trustin, you're right! So let me try again (my experience is more on PhD, articles than testimonial... ;-)
Mina allows us to get the network layout of OpenLSD done in about 2 months, saving us about 9 months to 1 year of developement and fine grain testing, so we can focus on other problems. Open Legacy Storage Document, a framework for document archiving for huge storage, brings security, network layout, JDBC, good performance, and allows at least 2 peta bytes of documents (2000 tera bytes, the limit is virtually 2^192 bytes). Our benchmark were OK with massive import capacity (through network with multiple processes) of 1400 documents per second, network (web) retrieves of 1000 documents per second with small latency. Network (MINA) was not the bottleneck so we can focus mainly on database optimization. For the web interface, our Tomcat app connects to OpenLSD Server using pool of Mina connections almost like a JDBC pool. Any Mina problems were resolved very quickly either by a quick fix in Mina itself (a few) or by code fix resolved through the support in the Mina's mailing list. This was one reason of this success. Therefore we continue to use Mina on other relatives project(email archiving and mimic of a profesionnal file transfer monitor). Again, Mina is helping us to focus on what the applications need to do and not too much on network layout. Well, a little bit longer, but I try to focus more on the numbers and what Mina brings to our project for newcomers. Of course, any comments are welcomed. I hope this one is better... Thank you Trustin and Julien, if I can help Mina to get more users, I would be happy! Frederic
