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

• Web Site
• Downloads
• Documentation
• @netty_project

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

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.

• 4.0
• 3.x