Scala/EventMachine is a framework for creating networked and distributed
applications, inspired by Ruby/EventMachine. It is copyrighted free software
released under an MIT-style license.

Copyright (C) 2010, by Francis Cianfrocca. All Rights Reserved

Scala/EM is written in pure Scala for deployment on the JVM.
It has the following design objectives:

1) Extremely fast and scalable. (Each process should support up to 100,000
   simultaneous network connections, and up to 10 gigabits/sec of throughput.)
2) Suitable for production environments, in enterprises and social networks.
   (Stable, dependable APIs, large suite of pre-built protocol handlers,
   integration with other enterprise frameworks)
3) Easy to use. (Programmers provide only application logic and the framework
   does the rest.)
4) A sequential programming style.

The first three objectives are shared with Ruby/EM. The fourth is a new
objective, designed to eliminate the difficulties associated with event-driven
programming. Scala/EM enables programmers to develop applications using a
straightforward, familiar style that uses blocking calls to obtain data from
the network.

Scala/EM relies on features of the Scala 2.8 programming language, including
event-driven actors and continuations, to achieve real ease of use combined
with extreme performance and scalability. But the framework hides these
complex features from the programmer.

The Scala/EM project will release experimental code branches and documentation,
on a schedule that tracks the production-release schedule of Scala version 2.8,
which is currently in beta. Keep checking here for updates.