The Netty project is an effort to provide anasynchronous, event-driven network applicationframework and tools for rapid development ofmaintainable, high-performance, high-scalabilityprotocol servers and clients. In other words, Netty is a NIO client server framework that enables quick and easy development of network applications such as protocol servers and clients. It simplifies and streamlines network programming such as TCP/IP socket servers.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Changes:
HTTP chunked encoding support has been added. Three new transports were added: HTTP tunneling transport, local in-VM transport, and XNIO transport. UDP support has been added via XNIO. A connection idle state detector has been added based on hashed wheel timer.
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