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Motivation: While the LengthFieldBasedFrameDecoder supports a byte order the LengthFieldPrepender does not. That means that I can simply add a LengthFieldBasedFrameDecoder with ByteOrder.LITTLE_ENDIAN to my pipeline but have to write my own Encoder to write length fields in little endian byte order. Modifications: Added a constructor that takes a byte order and all other parameters. All other constructors delegate to this one with ByteOrder.BIG_ENDIAN. LengthFieldPrepender.encode() uses this byte order to write the length field. Result: LengthFieldPrepender will write the length field in the defined byte order.
Netty Project
Netty is an asynchronous event-driven network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers & clients.
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How to build
For the detailed information about building and developing Netty, please visit the developer guide. This page only gives very basic information.
You require the following to build Netty:
- Latest stable Oracle JDK 7
- Latest stable Apache Maven
- If you are on Linux, you need additional development packages installed on your system, because you'll build the native transport.
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 to look
The 'master' branch 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' and the branch '4.0' respectively.