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MBassador is a very light-weight message (event) bus implementation following the publish subscribe pattern. It is designed
-for ease of use and aims to be feature rich and extensible while preserving resource efficiency and performance. It uses a specialized
-data structure to allow high throughput for concurrent access.
+for ease of use and aims to be feature rich and extensible while preserving resource efficiency and performance. The core of MBassador's
+high performance is a specialized data structure that minimizes lock contention such that performance degradation of concurrent access is minimal.
+The performance win of this design is illustrated in performance comparison.
+The benchmarking code can be found here
-Read this documentation to get an overview of its features. You can also check out the performance comparison
-which also contains a partial list of the features of the compared implementations.
+Read this documentation to get an overview of MBassadors features. There is also some documentation in the Wiki - although admittedly
+not enough to make a developer happy (work is in progress). But usage of publish subscribe pattern at its core is pretty straight forward and the basic
+use cases are very easy to understand and implement.
The current version is 1.1.7 and it is available from the Maven Central Repository. See the release notes for more details.
+There is also an extension available to support CDI-like transactional message sending in a Spring environment. It's beta but
+stable enough to give it a try. See here.
+
Table of contents:
+ [Features](#features)
+ [Usage](#usage)