SimpleNet Java network library: Released 0.5-beta

This is the third public release of SimpleNet, a Java network library aided in helping you to develop and design network protocols.

The library allows you to focus on the design of your network messages which are implemented as java classes. Together with the library come some default implementations of the interfaces, so you can instantly start writing your own network protocol! To make your life even easier, SimpleNet can use Googles protocol buffer message system, so you can essentially write your network protocol without touching much java code. Network protocol design was not so easy any time before.

This release features some bugfixes as well as many new default implementations and extensions to the core, which makes starting with SimpleNet even easier.

You can download this release at the SF project files page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/simplenet/files/Releases/SimpleNet-0.5-beta.tar.gz/download

There is now a daily build of the development version of SimpleNet and its API available at http://www.gearfore.de/~beni/SimpleNet

This release is considered a beta version, however the library should be stable enough to withstand heavy testing. Please report bugs and suggestions back!