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Motivation: Currently Netty does not wrap socket connect, bind, or accept operations in doPrivileged blocks. Nor does it wrap cases where a dns lookup might happen. This prevents an application utilizing the SecurityManager from isolating SocketPermissions to Netty. Modifications: I have introduced a class (SocketUtils) that wraps operations requiring SocketPermissions in doPrivileged blocks. Result: A user of Netty can grant SocketPermissions explicitly to the Netty jar, without granting it to the rest of their application.
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
Development of all 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.