Hi Simon, On Jan 25, 2008 6:02 PM, Simon Aquilina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have been working on some example to learn the mina networking framework. > However a question popped up in my mind - Can mina work on non-ip based > networks. For example, if I connect a custom radio device to my computer and > another radio device to another computer, can I use mina to send data between > these two computers even if communication between these two computers is not > IP based? > > I am new to networking in general and still in my second year in university. > All we study is practically standard TCP/IP networks so do not hesitate to > inform me if I am doing any wrong assumptions! From the mina website I can > read that mina provides an abstract · event-driven · asynchronous API over > various transports such as TCP/IP and UDP/IP via Java NIO. So if I create my > a custom transport system, than can I use mina on it?
Sure, you can create your custom transport system. One good example is serial port communication transport which has been implemented in the trunk. :) Trustin HTH, Trustin -- what we call human nature is actually human habit -- http://gleamynode.net/ -- PGP Key ID: 0x0255ECA6
