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Motivation: Project Jigsaw in JDK9 has moved the direct byte buffer cleaner from sun.misc.Cleaner to java.lang.ref.Cleaner$Cleanable. This cause the current platform tests to throw a ClassNotFoundException, disabling the use of direct byte buffer cleaners. Modifications: I use reflection to find the clean method in either sun.misc.Cleaner or java.lang.ref.Cleaner$Cleanable. Result: Netty uses direct byte buffers on JDK9 as it already do on earlier JDKs.
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.