The Apache MINA (Multipurpose Infrastructure for Network Applications) Project has recently released version 2. This session will provide a high-level overview of the project for newcomers, then delve into constructing your own protocol using MINA. We'll go over facilities MINA provides "for free", like flow control, comrpession and SSL. Advice on how to best migrate projects based on version 1 will be given, as well as advice and best-practices from running MINA in production environments.