Suggestion on Channel Classes

[Michael McGrady]

The Netty Channel interface throughout the package uses the following  
design pattern.

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The sub-interfaces are seemingly wholly unnecessary and over- 
complicate understanding the design. This is seemingly true of all of  
the following interface extensions.

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Unless there is good reason to the contrary that I am not aware of, I  
would deprecate these extensions and then get rid of them.  I would  
not be surprised if I have missed some reason why these are necessary.

Mike

Mike McGrady
Principal Investigator AF081-028 AFRL SBIR
Senior Engineer
Topia Technology, Inc
1.253.720.3365
mmcgrady at topiatechnology.com