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/**
 * The core channel API which is asynchronous and event-driven abstraction of
 * various transports such as a
 * <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_I/O#Channels">NIO Channel</a>.
 *
 * @apiviz.landmark
 * @apiviz.exclude ^java
 * @apiviz.exclude ^org\.jboss\.netty\.channel\.[^\.]+\.
 * @apiviz.exclude ^org\.jboss\.netty\.(bootstrap|handler|util)\.
 * @apiviz.exclude \.(Abstract|Default).*$
 * @apiviz.exclude \.[A-Za-z]+ChannelFuture$
 * @apiviz.exclude \.ChannelPipelineFactory$
 * @apiviz.exclude \.ChannelHandlerContext$
 * @apiviz.exclude \.ChannelSink$
 * @apiviz.exclude \.[A-Za-z]*ReceiveBufferSizePredictor$
 */
package org.jboss.netty.channel;