apach mina 是一个网络应用框架，使开发者更容易开发出高性能可扩展的网络应用。它通过java NIO提供了一个抽象的基于事件驱动的异步API，在例如 TCP/IP ,UDP/IP 等各种传输协议之上.
Apache MINA is a network application framework which helps users develop high performance and high scalability network applications easily. It provides an abstract event-driven asynchronous API over various transports such as TCP/IP and UDP/IP via Java NIO.
Apache MINA 经常被称为 ：
NIO framework library,
client server framework library, or
a networking socket library
Apache MINA 伴随着很多子项目 :
Asyncweb : An HTTP server build on top of MINA asynchronous framework
FtpServer : A FTP server
SSHd : A Java library supporting the SSH protocol
Vysper : An XMPP server