Package org.jboss.netty.channel

package org.jboss.netty.channel

The core channel API which is asynchronous and event-driven abstraction of various transports such as a NIO Channel.

Related Packages

Package	Description
org.jboss.netty.channel.group	A channel registry which helps a user maintain the list of open Channels and perform bulk operations on them.
org.jboss.netty.channel.local	A virtual transport that enables the communication between the two parties in the same virtual machine.
org.jboss.netty.channel.socket	Abstract TCP and UDP socket interfaces which extend the core channel API.

Class	Description
AbstractChannel	A skeletal Channel implementation.
AbstractChannelSink	A skeletal ChannelSink implementation.
AbstractServerChannel	A skeletal server-side Channel implementation.
AdaptiveReceiveBufferSizePredictor	The ReceiveBufferSizePredictor that automatically increases and decreases the predicted buffer size on feed back.
AdaptiveReceiveBufferSizePredictorFactory	The ReceiveBufferSizePredictorFactory that creates a new AdaptiveReceiveBufferSizePredictor.
Channel	A nexus to a network socket or a component which is capable of I/O operations such as read, write, connect, and bind.
ChannelConfig	A set of configuration properties of a Channel.
ChannelDownstreamHandler	Handles or intercepts a downstream ChannelEvent, and sends a ChannelEvent to the next handler in a ChannelPipeline.
ChannelEvent	An I/O event or I/O request associated with a Channel.
ChannelException	A RuntimeException which is thrown when an I/O operation fails.
ChannelFactory	The main interface to a transport that creates a Channel associated with a certain communication entity such as a network socket.
ChannelFuture	The result of an asynchronous Channel I/O operation.
ChannelFutureListener	Listens to the result of a ChannelFuture.
ChannelFutureNotifier	ChannelFutureListener implementation which takes another ChannelFuture and notifies it once the operationComplete method was called.
ChannelFutureProgressListener	Listens to the progress of a time-consuming I/O operation such as a large file transfer.
ChannelHandler	Handles or intercepts a ChannelEvent, and sends a ChannelEvent to the next handler in a ChannelPipeline.
ChannelHandler.Sharable	Indicates that the same instance of the annotated ChannelHandler can be added to one or more ChannelPipelines multiple times without a race condition.
ChannelHandlerContext	Enables a ChannelHandler to interact with its ChannelPipeline and other handlers.
ChannelHandlerLifeCycleException	A RuntimeException which is thrown when a LifeCycleAwareChannelHandler throws an Exception in its handler methods.
ChannelLocal<T>	A global variable that is local to a Channel.
ChannelPipeline	A list of ChannelHandlers which handles or intercepts ChannelEvents of a Channel.
ChannelPipelineException	A ChannelException which is thrown when a ChannelPipeline failed to process a ChannelEvent or when a ChannelPipelineFactory failed to initialize a ChannelPipeline.
ChannelPipelineFactory	Creates a new ChannelPipeline for a new Channel.
Channels	A helper class which provides various convenience methods related with Channel, ChannelHandler, and ChannelPipeline.
ChannelSink	Receives and processes the terminal downstream ChannelEvents.
ChannelState	The current or future state of a Channel.
ChannelStateEvent	A ChannelEvent which represents the change of the Channel state.
ChannelUpstreamHandler	Handles or intercepts an upstream ChannelEvent, and sends a ChannelEvent to the next handler in a ChannelPipeline.
ChildChannelStateEvent	A ChannelEvent which represents the notification of the state of a child Channel.
CompleteChannelFuture	A skeletal ChannelFuture implementation which represents a ChannelFuture which has been completed already.
ConnectTimeoutException	ConnectException which will be thrown if a connection could not be established because of a connection timeout.
DefaultChannelConfig	The default SocketChannelConfig implementation.
DefaultChannelFuture	The default ChannelFuture implementation.
DefaultChannelPipeline	The default ChannelPipeline implementation.
DefaultChannelPipeline.DiscardingChannelSink
DefaultChildChannelStateEvent	The default ChildChannelStateEvent implementation.
DefaultExceptionEvent	The default ExceptionEvent implementation.
DefaultFileRegion
DefaultServerChannelConfig	The default ServerSocketChannelConfig implementation.
DefaultWriteCompletionEvent	The default WriteCompletionEvent implementation.
DownstreamChannelStateEvent	The default downstream ChannelStateEvent implementation.
DownstreamMessageEvent	The default downstream MessageEvent implementation.
ExceptionEvent	A ChannelEvent which represents the notification of an exception raised by a ChannelHandler or an I/O thread.
FailedChannelFuture	The CompleteChannelFuture which is failed already.
FileRegion	A region of a file that is sent via a Channel which supports zero-copy file transfer.
FixedReceiveBufferSizePredictor	The ReceiveBufferSizePredictor that always yields the same buffer size prediction.
FixedReceiveBufferSizePredictorFactory	The ReceiveBufferSizePredictorFactory that returns a FixedReceiveBufferSizePredictor with the pre-defined configuration.
LifeCycleAwareChannelHandler	A ChannelHandler that is notified when it is added to or removed from a ChannelPipeline.
MessageEvent	A ChannelEvent which represents the transmission or reception of a message.
ReceiveBufferSizePredictor	Predicts the number of readable bytes in the receive buffer of a Channel.
ReceiveBufferSizePredictorFactory	Creates a new ReceiveBufferSizePredictor.
ServerChannel	A Channel that accepts an incoming connection attempt and creates its child Channels by accepting them.
ServerChannelFactory	A ChannelFactory that creates a ServerChannel.
SimpleChannelDownstreamHandler	A ChannelDownstreamHandler which provides an individual handler method for each event type.
SimpleChannelHandler	A ChannelHandler which provides an individual handler method for each event type.
SimpleChannelUpstreamHandler	A ChannelUpstreamHandler which provides an individual handler method for each event type.
SucceededChannelFuture	The CompleteChannelFuture which is succeeded already.
UpstreamChannelStateEvent	The default upstream ChannelStateEvent implementation.
UpstreamMessageEvent	The default upstream MessageEvent implementation.
WriteCompletionEvent	A ChannelEvent which represents the notification of the completion of a write request on a Channel.