Netty is a

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client-server

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for the development of

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network applications such as protocol servers and clients. The asynchronous

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network application framework and tools are used to simplify network programming such as TCP and UDP socket servers. Netty includes an implementation of the

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of programming. Originally developed by

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, Netty is now developed and maintained by the Netty Project Community. Besides being an asynchronous network application framework, Netty also includes built-in implementations of SSL/ TLS,

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WebSocket WebSocket is a computer communications protocol, providing full-duplex communication channels over a single TCP connection. The WebSocket protocol was standardized by the IETF as in 2011. The current API specification allowing web applications ...

DNS The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical and distributed naming system for computers, services, and other resources in the Internet or other Internet Protocol (IP) networks. It associates various information with domain names assigned to ...

Protocol Buffers Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) is a free and open-source cross-platform data format used to serialize structured data. It is useful in developing programs to communicate with each other over a network or for storing data. The method involves an int ...

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and other protocols. Netty is not a Java

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, but is able to run inside one, and supports message

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. Netty has been actively developed since 2004. Beginning with version 4.0.0, Netty also supports the usage of NIO.2 as a backend, along with

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and blocking Java sockets.

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* {{Official website Java platform Message-oriented middleware

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