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Motivation: retainSlice() currently does not unwrap the ByteBuf when creating the ByteBuf wrapper. This effectivley forms a linked list of ByteBuf when it is only necessary to maintain a reference to the unwrapped ByteBuf. Modifications: - retainSlice() and retainDuplicate() variants should only maintain a reference to the unwrapped ByteBuf - create new unit tests which generally verify the retainSlice() behavior - Remove unecessary generic arguments from AbstractPooledDerivedByteBuf - Remove unecessary int length member variable from the unpooled sliced ByteBuf implementation - Rename the unpooled sliced/derived ByteBuf to include Unpooled in their name to be more consistent with the Pooled variants Result: Fixes https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/5582
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.