Netty Concepts

Internal

• Java Non-Blocking I/O Concepts
• Java NIO and TCP Connections
• Netty

Overview

High throughput non-blocking I/O. Servers and clients. Channel. ChannelPipeline that holds ChannelHandler instances. Events. Everything is an event (accept new connection, read data, write data). Event lifecycle. Events are processed by EventLoops.

Transport and NIO Transport.

Both the server and the client go through a bootstrapping process.