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Motivation: PooledByteBufAllocator's thread local cache and ReferenceCountUtil.releaseLater() are in need of a way to run an arbitrary logic when a certain thread is terminated. Modifications: - Add ThreadDeathWatcher, which spawns a low-priority daemon thread that watches a list of threads periodically (every second) and invokes the specified tasks when the associated threads are not alive anymore - Start-stop logic based on CAS operation proposed by @tea-dragon - Add debug-level log messages to see if ThreadDeathWatcher works Result: - Fixes #2519 because we don't use GlobalEventExecutor anymore - Cleaner code
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.
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.