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This pull request provides a framework for exchanging a very large stream between handlers, typically between a decoder and an inbound handler (or between a handler that writes a message and an encoder that encodes that message). For example, an HTTP decoder, previously, generates multiple micro-messages to decode an HTTP message (i.e. HttpRequest + HttpChunks). With the streaming API, The HTTP decoder can simply generate a single HTTP message whose content is a Stream. And then the inbound handler can consume the Stream via the buffer you created when you begin to read the stream. If you create a buffer whose capacity is bounded, you can handle a very large stream without allocating a lot of memory. If you just want to wait until the whole content is ready, you can also do that with an unbounded buffer. The streaming API also supports a limited form of communication between a producer (i.e. decoder) and a consumer. A producer can abort the stream if the stream is not valid anymore. A consumer can choose to reject or discard the stream, where rejection is for unrecoverable failure and discard is for recoverable failure. P.S. Special thanks to @jpinner for the initial input. |
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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
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.