| # Netty Project |
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| Netty is an asynchronous event-driven network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers & clients. |
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| ## Links |
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| * [Web Site](http://netty.io/) |
| * [Downloads](http://netty.io/downloads.html) |
| * [Documentation](http://netty.io/wiki/) |
| * [@netty_project](https://twitter.com/netty_project) |
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| ## How to build |
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| For the detailed information about building and developing Netty, please visit [the developer guide](http://netty.io/wiki/developer-guide.html). This page only gives very basic information. |
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| You require the following to build Netty: |
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| * Latest stable [Oracle JDK 7](http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/) |
| * Latest stable [Apache Maven](http://maven.apache.org/) |
| * If you are on Linux, you need [additional development packages](http://netty.io/wiki/native-transports.html) installed on your system, because you'll build the native transport. |
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| Note that this is build-time requirement. JDK 5 (for 3.x) or 6 (for 4.0+) is enough to run your Netty-based application. |
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| ## Branches to look |
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| Development of all versions takes place in each branch whose name is identical to `<majorVersion>.<minorVersion>`. For example, the development of 3.9 and 4.0 resides in [the branch '3.9'](https://github.com/netty/netty/tree/3.9) and [the branch '4.0'](https://github.com/netty/netty/tree/4.0) respectively. |
