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Motivation: CompletionStage is the new standard for async operation chaining in JDK8+ that is supported by various of libs. To make it easer to interopt with other libs and to allow users to make good use of lambdas and functional programming style we should allow to convert from our Future to a CompletionStage while still provide the same ordering guarantees. The reason why we expose this as toStage() and not jus have Future extend CompletionStage is for two reasons: - Keep our interface norrow - Keep semantics clear (Future.addListener(...) methods return this while all chaining methods of CompletionStage return a new instance). Modifications: - Merge implements in AbstractFuture to Future (by make these default methods) - Add Future.toStage() as a default method and a special implemention in DefaultPromise (to reduce GC). - Add Future.executor() which returns the EventExecutor that is pinned to the Future - Introduce FutureCompletionStage that extends CompletionStage to clarify threading semantics and guarantees. Result: Easier inter-op with other Java8+ libaries. Related to https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/8523.
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.
Usage with JDK 9
Netty can be used in modular JDK9 applications as a collection of automatic modules. The module names follow the reverse-DNS style, and are derived from subproject names rather than root packages due to historical reasons. They are listed below:
io.netty.allio.netty.bufferio.netty.codecio.netty.codec.dnsio.netty.codec.haproxyio.netty.codec.httpio.netty.codec.http2io.netty.codec.memcacheio.netty.codec.mqttio.netty.codec.redisio.netty.codec.smtpio.netty.codec.socksio.netty.codec.stompio.netty.codec.xmlio.netty.commonio.netty.handlerio.netty.handler.proxyio.netty.resolverio.netty.resolver.dnsio.netty.transportio.netty.transport.epoll(nativeomitted - reserved keyword in Java)io.netty.transport.kqueue(nativeomitted - reserved keyword in Java)io.netty.transport.unix.common(nativeomitted - reserved keyword in Java)io.netty.transport.rxtxio.netty.transport.sctpio.netty.transport.udt
Automatic modules do not provide any means to declare dependencies, so you need to list each used module separately
in your module-info file.