netty5/README.md

# Netty Project

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

## Links

* [Web Site](http://netty.io/)
* [Downloads](http://netty.io/downloads.html)
* [Documentation](http://netty.io/wiki/)
* [@netty_project](https://twitter.com/netty_project)

## How to build

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.

You require the following to build Netty:

* Latest stable [Oracle JDK 7](http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/)
* Latest stable [Apache Maven](http://maven.apache.org/)

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.

## Branches

* [4.0](https://github.com/netty/netty)
* [3.x](https://github.com/netty/netty/tree/3)