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20 Netty Reviews

The async IO, Java NIO integration.
Ability to configure and optimize all aspects down to the lowest network bits. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
No containers, perhaps too many configurations in some instances and manual path handling in code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.


Netty provides a non blocking I/O, and is very flexible and easy to use. It's also a very good fit if you want to write applications based on your own protocols.
Using for websockets i found netty a pleasure to work with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Netty is not optimized as a HTTP server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I used Netty as a TCP and WebSocket based server for hand help devices. It runs very smoothly and consumes less resources. It offers high performance which is very help in developing low latency services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
An in-depth documentation with examples would be helpful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Non blocking feature of Netty is what I liked the most. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Netty is not as optimized as a Http server. It has certain static overhead - per connection memory use is pretty high. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
it has lot of interfaces to adopt to the scenarios
it provides non block way of processing message across client and server
asynchronous event-driven network application framework
API's are very flexible to handle error cases Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
hard to achieve performances
hard to debug when message is missed over socket
hard to get tuned to send millions of requests Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.