Twisted. Twisted is an event-driven networking engine written in Python and licensed under the open source MIT license. Twisted runs on Python 2 and an ever growing subset also works with Python 3. Twisted makes it easy to implement custom network applications. Here's a TCP server that echoes back everything that's written to it: from twisted.internet import protocol, reactor, endpoints class Echo(protocol.Protocol): def dataReceived(self, data): self.transport.write(data) class EchoFactory(protocol.Factory): def buildProtocol(self, addr): return Echo() endpoints.serverFromString(reactor, "tcp:1234").listen(EchoFactory()) reactor.run() Learn more about writing servers, writing clients and the core networking libraries , including support for SSL, UDP, scheduled events, unit testing infrastructure, and much more.
Twisted includes an event-driven web server. Learn more about web application development, templates and Twisted's HTTP client. Twisted includes a sophisticated IMAP4 client library. Node.js. Apache MINA - Welcome to Apache MINA Project! Netty - the Java NIO Client Server Socket Framework. Purplefox/vert.x - GitHub.