Motivation: In a few classes, Netty starts a thread and then sets the context classloader of these threads to prevent classloader leaks. The Thread#setContextClassLoader method is a privileged method in that it requires permissions to be executed when there is a security manager in place. Unless these calls are wrapped in a doPrivileged block, they will fail in an environment with a security manager and restrictive policy in place. Modifications: Wrap the calls to Thread#setContextClassLoader in a AccessController#doPrivileged block. Result: After this change, the threads can set the context classloader without any errors in an environment with a security manager and restrictive policy in place.
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.buffer
io.netty.codec
io.netty.codec.dns
io.netty.codec.haproxy
io.netty.codec.http
io.netty.codec.http2
io.netty.codec.memcache
io.netty.codec.mqtt
io.netty.codec.redis
io.netty.codec.smtp
io.netty.codec.socks
io.netty.codec.stomp
io.netty.codec.xml
io.netty.common
io.netty.handler
io.netty.handler.proxy
io.netty.resolver
io.netty.resolver.dns
io.netty.transport
io.netty.transport.epoll
(native
omitted - reserved keyword in Java)io.netty.transport.kqueue
(native
omitted - reserved keyword in Java)io.netty.transport.unix.common
(native
omitted - reserved keyword in Java)io.netty.transport.rxtx
io.netty.transport.sctp
io.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.