Netty is an asynchronous event-driven network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers & clients.

• Web Site: http://netty.io/

• Docs: http://netty.io/wiki/

• Blog: http://netty.io/news/

• Twitter: @netty_project

• Download Page: http://netty.io/downloads.html

• Maven Repository:

<dependencies> ... <dependency> <groupId>io.netty</groupId> <artifactId>netty-all</artifactId> <version>X.Y.Z.Q</version> <scope>compile</scope> </dependency> ... </dependencies>

• Netty is setup to build using Maven

• You need JDK 7 to build Netty. Netty will run with JDK 5 (3.x) and JDK 6 (4).

• master branch contains code for Netty 4.x

• 3 branch contains code for Netty 3.x