The Netty Project 3.0.2.GA API Reference

Low-level data representation

org.jboss.netty.buffer

Abstraction of a byte-level buffer - the fundamental data structure to represent low-level binary and text messages.

Central interface for all I/O operations

org.jboss.netty.channel	The core channel API which is asynchronous and event-driven abstraction of various transports such as a NIO Channel.
org.jboss.netty.channel.socket	Abstract TCP and UDP socket interfaces which extend the core channel API.
org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.nio	NIO-based socket channel API implementation - recommended for a large number of connections (>= 1000).
org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.oio	Old blocking I/O based socket channel API implementation - recommended for a small number of connections (< 1000).

Client & Server bootstrapping utilities

org.jboss.netty.bootstrap

Helper classes which enable an easy implementation of typical client side and server side channel initialization.

Reusable I/O event interceptors

org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.frame	Extensible decoder and its common implementations which deal with the packet fragmentation and reassembly issue found in a stream-based transport such as TCP/IP.
org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.replay	Specialized variation of FrameDecoder which enables implementation of a non-blocking decoder in the blocking I/O paradigm.
org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.serialization	Encoder, decoder and their compatibility stream implementations which transform a Serializable object into a byte buffer and vice versa.
org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.string	Encoder and decoder which transform a String into a ChannelBuffer and vice versa.
org.jboss.netty.handler.execution	Executor-based implementation of various thread models and memory overload prevention mechanisms.
org.jboss.netty.handler.ssl	SSL · TLS implementation based on SSLEngine

Miscellaneous

org.jboss.netty.logging

Simplistic internal-use-only logging layer which allows a user to decide what logging framework Netty should use.