The Netty project is an effort to provide anasynchronous, event-driven network applicationframework for rapid development ofhigh-performance, high-scalability protocolservers and clients. It includes relatedout-of-the-box protocol extensions and a toolsuite.License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)Changes:
The pipeline package was merged into the channelpackage for a more user-friendly API. Moreinterfaces were added to give a clearer view onthe overall class hierarchy and to utilize theJava covariant return type. netty.jar is nowOSGi-compatible.

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