The Netty Project API Reference (3.7.1.Final)

The Netty project is an effort to provide an asynchronous event-driven network application framework and tools for rapid development of maintainable high performance and high scalability protocol servers and clients. In other words, Netty is a NIO client server framework which enables quick and easy development of network applications such as protocol servers and clients. It greatly simplifies and streamlines network programming such as TCP/IP socket server.

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Low-level data representation 
Package Description
org.jboss.netty.buffer
Abstraction of a byte buffer - the fundamental data structure to represent a low-level binary and text message.
Central interface for all I/O operations 
Package Description
org.jboss.netty.channel
The core channel API which is asynchronous and event-driven abstraction of various transports such as a NIO Channel.
org.jboss.netty.channel.group
A channel registry which helps a user maintain the list of open Channels and perform bulk operations on them.
org.jboss.netty.channel.local
A virtual transport that enables the communication between the two parties in the same virtual machine.
org.jboss.netty.channel.socket
Abstract TCP and UDP socket interfaces which extend the core channel API.
org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.http
An HTTP-based client-side SocketChannel and its corresponding server-side Servlet implementation that make your existing server application work in a firewalled network.
org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.nio
NIO-based socket channel API implementation - recommended for a large number of connections (>= 1000).
org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.oio
Old blocking I/O based socket channel API implementation - recommended for a small number of connections (< 1000).
Client & Server bootstrapping utilities 
Package Description
org.jboss.netty.bootstrap
IoC/DI friendly helper classes which enable an easy implementation of typical client side and server side channel initialization.
Reusable I/O event interceptors 
Package Description
org.jboss.netty.handler.codec
Base package for codecs
org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.base64
Encoder and decoder which transform a Base64-encoded String or ChannelBuffer into a decoded ChannelBuffer and vice versa.
org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.compression
Encoder and decoder which compresses and decompresses ChannelBuffers in a compression format such as zlib and gzip.
org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.embedder
A helper that wraps an encoder or a decoder so that they can be used without doing actual I/O in unit tests or higher level codecs.
org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.frame
Extensible decoder and its common implementations which deal with the packet fragmentation and reassembly issue found in a stream-based transport such as TCP/IP.
org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.http
Encoder, decoder and their related message types for HTTP.
org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.http.multipart
HTTP multipart support.
org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.http.websocket  
org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.http.websocketx
Encoder, decoder, handshakers and their related message types for Web Socket data frames.
org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.marshalling
Decoder and Encoder which uses JBoss Marshalling.
org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.oneone
Simplistic abstract classes which help implement encoder and decoder that transform an object into another object and vice versa.
org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.protobuf
Encoder and decoder which transform a Google Protocol Buffers Message into a ChannelBuffer and vice versa.
org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.replay
Specialized variation of FrameDecoder which enables implementation of a non-blocking decoder in the blocking I/O paradigm.
org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.rtsp
An RTSP extension based on the HTTP codec.
org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.serialization
Encoder, decoder and their compatibility stream implementations which transform a Serializable object into a byte buffer and vice versa.
org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.socks
Encoder, decoder and their related message types for Socks.
org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.spdy
Encoder, decoder, session handler and their related message types for the SPDY protocol.
org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.string
Encoder and decoder which transform a String into a ChannelBuffer and vice versa.
org.jboss.netty.handler.execution
Executor-based implementation of various thread models that separate business logic from I/O threads
org.jboss.netty.handler.ipfilter
Implementation of a Ip based Filter handlers.
org.jboss.netty.handler.logging
Logs a ChannelEvent for debugging purpose using an InternalLogger.
org.jboss.netty.handler.queue
The special-purpose handlers that store an event into an internal queue instead of propagating the event immediately.
org.jboss.netty.handler.ssl
SSL · TLS implementation based on SSLEngine
org.jboss.netty.handler.stream
Writes very large data stream asynchronously neither spending a lot of memory nor getting OutOfMemoryError.
org.jboss.netty.handler.timeout
Adds support for read and write timeout and idle connection notification using a Timer.
org.jboss.netty.handler.traffic
Implementation of a Traffic Shaping Handler and Dynamic Statistics.
Miscellaneous 
Package Description
org.jboss.netty.logging
Simplistic internal-use-only logging layer which allows a user to decide what logging framework Netty should use.
org.jboss.netty.util
Utility classes used across multiple packages.

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