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Island(s) in the (Non-blocking I/O) Stream As a great aficionado of Ernest Hemingway and, you guessed it, Dolly Parton I thought that the title will fit the post about non-blocking I/O servers based on Java. While poking around on the Internet doing research for this article, I realized that Apache MINA is not the only one in the category of non-blocking I/O servers written in Java. There's are also Netty and Grizzly. So, only in this installment of this blog, you get triple amount of servers for the for the price of one. No coupons needed. Java Besides being an exotic island, it's also a name of a programing language. In good old times there were hardly any pictures in text books, so children had no problem remembering names like Fortran, COBOL, or even better, C. C++ is also an easy one: “C” doubleplusgood. Post 1984 generations, however, started naming programing languages after snakes, islands and gems, to mention a few. Java is interpreted language, therefore i