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New Feature
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Status: Resolved
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Minor
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Resolution: Won't Do
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Description
I think, with its simple but powerful API Mina is the framework of choice to develop network based, stand-alone applications. But right now you cannot use Mina within an application server in a JEE spec compliant way. The JEE spec implicates that for applications needing socket connections (at least inbound) or creating threads you need a JCA resource adapter.
So I suggest that one could also use Mina as JCA Resource Adapter framework.
In this use case it would plug into an application server as JCA adapter and not create any threads but rather use JCA workmangers.
The classname of the concrete IoHandlerAdapter would be an attribute of activation-config. The Mina Adapter would either trigger a message driven bean or would handle everything in the IoHandlerAdapter code (which could call an EJB, but I am not sure of this).
E.g. one could deploy Apache FTP server as JCA Adapter in Geronimo and have only one Java process to monitor. Also directory server or the derby listener could be better integrated in an application server as JCA adapter.
I think Mina as JCA adapter could be the framework of many use cases. The Mina framework would shield the application programmer from the rather complex JCA API.
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