Node.x: asynchronous, event-based server framework for the JVM similar to node.js
What is Node.x?
* A general purpose framework that uses an asynchronous event based style for building highly scalable network or file system aware applications* Runs on the JVM.
* Everything is asynchronous.
* Embraces the style of node.js and extends it to the JVM. Think node.js on steroids. Plus some.
* Polyglot. The same (or similar) API will be available in multiple languages: Ruby, Java, Groovy, (Python?, JS?, Clojure?), etc
* Goes with the recent developments with InvokeDynamic in Java 7 and bets on the JVM being the future premier runtime for dynamic languages.
* Enables you to create network servers or clients incredibly easily.
* True threading. Unlike node.js, Python Twisted or Ruby EventMachine, it has true multi-threaded scalability. No more spinning up 32 instances just to utilise the cores on your server.
* Understands multiple protocols out of the box including: TCP, SSL, UDP, HTTP, HTTPS, Websockets, AMQP, STOMP, Redis etc
* Provides an elegant api for composing asynchronous actions together. Glue together HTTP, AMQP, Redis or whatever in a few lines of code. https://github.com/purplefox/node.x/
http://purplefox.github.com/node.x/
