NIO Framework

This release adds support for traffic shaping and dummy traffic. Many new Forwarders and Transformers (the new I/O building blocks of v1.1) have been added. Atomic counters were added to many places to support traffic accounting.

The fixed I/O class hierarchy has been replaced by
a group of flexible
transformation classes which can be combined in
almost arbitrary order.
The Dispatcher now uses daemon threads so that
applications can have
a clean shutdown. The timeout handler in the
Dispatcher uses weak
references for better memory management. The
HandlerAdapter now provides
access to the channel.

The API was simplified. Locking was simplified.
Code cleanups were done. Some classes were
renamed.

Ant targets for running benchmarks. A simpler API. More annotations. Support for multi-homed systems. Bugfixes.

This release adds support for user-defined timeouts for non-blocking socket connection operations. It adds some examples to the package.