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# Netty Project
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Netty is an asynchronous event-driven network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers & clients.
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## Links
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* [Web Site](http://netty.io/)
* [Downloads](http://netty.io/downloads.html)
* [Documentation](http://netty.io/wiki/)
* [@netty_project](https://twitter.com/netty_project)
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## How to build
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For the detailed information about building and developing Netty, please visit [the developer guide](http://netty.io/wiki/developer-guide.html). This page only gives very basic information.
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You require the following to build Netty:
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* Latest stable [Oracle JDK 7](http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/)
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* Latest stable [Apache Maven](http://maven.apache.org/)
* If you are on Linux, you need [additional development packages](http://netty.io/wiki/native-transports.html) installed on your system, because you'll build the native transport.
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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.
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## Branches to look
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[The 'master' branch](https://github.com/netty/netty/tree/master) is where the development of the latest major version lives on. The development of all other 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'](https://github.com/netty/netty/tree/3.9) and [the branch '4.0'](https://github.com/netty/netty/tree/4.0) respectively.