> Hi guys, > > I just was spending the last 5 days in Amsterdam, during the Apache > Conference, and had some great time. I also had a talk about MINA (I will > post the slides on the mina web site, and some great conversations with > Jean-François Arcand, one of the Grizzly committer, who had a talk about NIO > 2.0. > > During those conversations, an idea popped out of our minds (well, beers are > the brain's steroids, it seems ...) : what about creating a set of standard > protocol codec which can be used, alleviating the users burden and letting > them focus on the handler part ? > > That should not be complicated to grow this set of protocol codecs (they > will be like plugins), and we will get less mails from users having problem > just because they have made some mistake in their decoder. > > We may have standard codecs for : > - http, > - ldap > - ntp > - XML (that is a bit complex, but I have some idea about it) > - XMPP > - ... > > Wdyt ?
A big +1 for this. We can inherit some codecs from ApacheDS, Was planning to put an XML example in place, just always running out of time. > PS1: Thanks to Ashish's XML sample, I was able to whip this part of the > presentation in a matter of 30 minutes ! Looking forward to see the presentation. > PS2 : I just posted this mail in the Thalys, the speed train between > Amsterdam and Paris. Funny how you can use Wifi when the train is running at > 300 Km/h !!! And it's free :
