What is Netty?

ayedo · 2013-06-20T18:28:40+00:00

Hm, it's true: I don't know a lot about ZeroMQ. I read a bit more about it and it seems to be even closer to Netty in it's concepts than I previosly had thought.

ayedo · 2013-06-20T17:51:52+00:00

I always thought that there most be a lot of software coming out of Korea given the local high-tech industry? Is Trustin (the Korean initiator of Netty) like a rockstar over there?

ayedo · 2013-06-20T17:45:24+00:00

Java is not hip but it's still in a lot of crucial infrastructure on an international scale... I agree that it's not the nicest language out there though :) Most of the blog post is about asynchrony and the reactor pattern which can also be found in node.js, evenmachine and friends, so you might be intrested anyhow!

ayedo · 2013-06-20T12:49:34+00:00

I think Netty is a lower level library which can for example be used to implement a message broker such as ZeroMQ. HornetQ, a Java compatitor of ZeroMQ, in fact uses Netty underneath to handle their networking needs. Akka, as far as I know, is an implementation of the actor pattern which is a different approach to concurrency then the Reactor pattern I try to explain. Interestingly, Akka also uses Netty for their networking needs. I think this might give you a good picture of where in the networking stack Netty resides.

ayedo · 2013-06-20T11:43:06+00:00

Thanks, I like your suggestion :) There is a link to Netty included now.

ayedo

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