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From: vibul <vibuli@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:13:41 +1100
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+#The 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/
+
+- Docs: http://netty.io/docs/
+
+- Blog: http://netty.io/blog/
+
+- Twitter: @netty_project
+
+## Getting Netty
+
+- Download Page: http://netty.io/downloads/
+
+- Maven Repository: 
+
+```xml
+    <dependencies>
+      ...
+      <dependency>
+        <groupId>io.netty</groupId>
+        <artifactId>netty</artifactId>
+        <version>X.Y.Z.Q</version>
+        <scope>compile</scope>
+      </dependency>
+      ...
+    </dependencies>
+```
+
+## Developer Information
+
+- Netty is setup to build using [Maven](http://maven.apache.org/)
+
+- You need JDK 7 to __build__ Netty. Netty will run with JDK 5 and JDK 6.
+
+- __master__ branch contains code for Netty v4
+
+- __3.2__ branch contains code for Netty v3.X
+