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

[Adam Fisk]

Great work Trustin. The compression and decompression handlers are
quite a feat - looking forward to checking out the code!

-Adam


On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 5:39 AM, Trustin Lee (이희승) <trustin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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/
>
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