[NIO]: Netty

Netty Framework:
The Netty project is an effort to provide an asynchronous event-driven network application framework and tools for rapid development of maintainable high performance & high scalability protocol servers & clients.

Performance Test Reports:

• Performance Comparison of Apache MINA and JBoss Netty Revisited
• Plurk Comet: Handling 100,000+ Concurrent Connections with Netty
• Performance Comparison of Apache MINA and JBoss Netty
• Performance Comparison between NIO Frameworks

1) Last link is a comparision between 5 most popular NIO Frameworks in Java: Netty, Grizzly, MINA, NIO Framework and xSocket.
2) Trustin Lee (founder of Netty)
- have expirience with NIO from 2003
- is co-founder of Apache MINA:)