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

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For the detailed information about building and developing Netty, please visit the developer guide. This page only gives very basic information.

You require the following to build Netty:

• Latest stable Oracle JDK 7
• Latest stable Apache Maven
• If you are on Linux, you need additional development packages installed on your system, because you'll build the native transport.

Note that this is build-time requirement. JDK 5 (for 3.x) or 6 (for 4.0+) is enough to run your Netty-based application.

Development of all versions takes place in each branch whose name is identical to <majorVersion>.<minorVersion>. For example, the development of 3.9 and 4.0 resides in the branch '3.9' and the branch '4.0' respectively.