Netty 3.0.0 CR5

Netty provides an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework for rapid development of high-performance, high-scalability protocol servers and clients, including its related out-of-the-box protocol extensions and tool suite.
Netty has been written from ground up to provide a user more innovation and better experience in network application development.
NOTE: Netty is licensed and distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License.

Main features:>
- Design
- Unified API for various transport types - blocking and non-blocking socket
- Based on a flexible and extensible event model which allows clear separation of concerns
- Highly customizable thread model - single thread, one or more thread pools such as SEDA
- No more big fat monolithic core which has unnecessary features
- True connectionless datagram socket support (to be implemented, API is ready)
- Performance
- Better throughput, lower latency
- Less resource consumption
- Minimized unnecessary memory copy
- Robustness
- No more OutOfMemoryError due to fast, slow or overloaded connection.
- No more unfair read / write ratio often found in a NIO application under high speed network
- Security
- Complete SSL/TLS and StartTLS support
- Runs OK in a Java Applet environment
- Community
- One release per two weeks at least
- The author has been writing network application frameworks for more than 3 years and he still finds your feed back is precious!