A general purpose framework that uses an asynchronous event based style for building highly scalable network or file system aware applications Runs on the JVM. Everything is asynchronous. Embraces the style of node.js and extends it to the JVM. Think node.js *on steroids*. Plus some. Polyglot. The same (or similar) API will be available in multiple languages: Ruby, Java, Groovy, (Python?, JS?, Clo