Apache MINA is a network application framework which helps users develop high performance and high scalability network applications easily.
Apache MINA是一个网络应用框架，这个框架帮助用户容易的开发高性能和高可扩展行的应用程序
It provides an abstract event-driven asynchronous API over various transports such as TCP/IP and UDP/IP via Java NIO.
它提供了一个抽象的异步的基于事件驱动的API，通过各种通讯协议例如： TCP/IP 和UDP/IP 通过javaNIO

Apache MINA is often called:
?NIO framework library,
?client server framework library, or
?a networking socket library

来源http://mina.apache.org/