"timfox" wrote : 2) Text messages. Currently text message bodies are encoded using UTF-8 with the encoding methods on the MINA IoBuffer class. This is slow (as mentioned in another thread). One of my friends told me just writing a byte array generated by String.getBytes(enc) performs better. YMMV though. I'd prefer David's suggestion to use UTF-16 although it's not so efficient for ASCII strings. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4150795#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...