# 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 (3.x) and JDK 6 (4).

- __master__ branch contains code for Netty 4.x

- __3__ branch contains code for Netty 3.x