Netty 3.2.0.ALPHA1 released: New Journey to the Next Level

[Trustin Lee (이희승)]

Hi folks,

Netty 3.2.0.ALPHA1, the first milestone in the 3.2 branch, has been released.

The Netty project is an effort to provide an asynchronous,
event-driven network application framework and tools for rapid
development of maintainable, high-performance, high-scalability
protocol servers and clients.

In other words, Netty is a NIO client server framework that enables
quick and easy development of network applications such as protocol
servers and clients. It simplifies and streamlines network programming
such as TCP and UDP socket servers

Please visit our web site to download it.  Your feed back is more than
appreciated - please visit the discussion forum and leave some
comments and questions:

  * http://www.jboss.org/netty/

Compression Handlers
====================
The ability to compress and decompress a connection transparently was
one of the early feature requests in Netty development.  The
compression handlers introduced in this release add complete support
for both GZIP and ZLIB compression encoding, which is not found in any
other NIO application frameworks.  For more information, please look
at the org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.compression package.

On top of the new compression handlers, HTTP content compression /
decompression support has been added, too.  Please take a look at the
HTTP snoop client / server example for more information.

New Testimonial
===============
Dave Siracusa from Perfware LLC sent a nice testimonial for Netty
recently.  You will find it very interesting; he succeeded to write an
HTTP server which is capable of processing 15,000 messages per second
on top of Netty.  Check his recommendation and other testimonials
here: http://www.jboss.org/netty/testimonials.html

Upcoming Releases
=================
Although we did not add many new features in this first alpha, we have
bunch of new features planned, and they are all public in our issue
tracker and mailing list.  Please feel free to join the discussion and
keep us updated with any ideas for new features, bugs, design issues,
API usability feed back, and questions - your idea is the future of
Netty!

Miscellaneous
=============
For the full changelog, please visit here:

  * http://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/NETTY

Cheers,
Trustin

— Trustin Lee, http://gleamynode.net/