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/docs/

• Blog: http://netty.io/blog/

• Twitter: @netty_project

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

• Maven Repository:

    <dependencies>
      ...
      <dependency>
        <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
        <artifactId>netty</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