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Open Source Projects

  • Accord Odette FTP is an OFTP client library that communicates with an OFTP server of various versions including 1.3, 1.4, and 2.0.
  • Actorom is a pure Java implementation of the actor model, aimed at making message-passing concurrency mainstream in everyday Java development.
  • Akka is a Scala-based platform that provides simpler scalability, fault-tolerance, concurrency, and remoting through the actor model and software transactional memory.
  • Apache James Server is a modular e-mail server platform that integrates SMTP, POP3, IMAP, and NNTP.
  • Aspen is a web server engine for JRuby, which is similar to Thin.
  • Async HTTP Client is a simple-to-use library that allows you to execute HTTP requests and process the HTTP responses asynchronously.
  • Elastic Search is a distributed RESTful search engine built on top of Lucene.
  • Eucalyptus is a software infrastructure for implementing on-premise cloud computing using an organization's own IT infrastructure, without modification, special-purpose hardware or reconfiguration.
  • Flazr is an implementation of protocols such as RTMP used for multimedia streaming.
  • Forest is a general purpose friend-to-friend platform.
  • Gatling is an asynchronous and efficient stress tool developed with Netty and Akka.
  • HornetQ is a project to build a multi-protocol, embeddable, very high performance, clustered, asynchronous messaging system.
  • Hotpotato is a high performance and throughput oriented HTTP client library.
  • Infinispan is an extremely scalable, highly avaiable data grid platform.
  • JBossWS is a feature-rich JAX-WS compatible web service stack.
  • Jetserver is a fast multiplayer java game server written using JBoss Netty and Mike Rettig's Jetlang.It supports TCP and UDP transmission and flash amf3 protocol.
  • jGNTP is a Java-based GNTP implementation that allows your application interacts with a Growl server.
  • JMemcached is an implementation of the server side of the memcached protocol.
  • JXTA is a set of open protocols that enable any connected device on the network, ranging from cell phones and wireless PDAs to PCs and servers, to communicate and collaborate in a P2P manner.
  • NETTY-ICAP Codec is a high performance full RFC3507 compliant ICAP codec implementation. This protocol is mostly used in proxy environments in order to offload work to external servers.
  • LittleProxy is a high-performance HTTP proxy.
  • LittleShoot is an open source P2P technology for publishing, searching, and downloading files based on open protocols and open standards.
  • MessagePack is a binary-based efficient object serialization library that enables to exchange structured objects between many languages.
  • Mobicents Media Server is a media gateway server that processes the audio and/or video streams associated with telephone calls or VoIP connections.
  • Mobicents SIP Servlets is an open source certified SIP Servlet implementation.
  • Naggati is a protocol builder for Netty, written in Scala.
  • Netty Protobuf RPC is an implementation of the RPC layer for Google Protocol Buffer services.
  • Netty Tools is a small collection of tools useful when working with Netty, which includes various HTTP clients and servers, bandwidth meter, and Thrift RPC processor.
  • NIOSMTP is an asynchronous SMTP client implementation.
  • Norbert is a Scala library which provides cluster management and easy workload partitioning to make building a cluster aware application easy.
  • OpenR66 is an open source file transfer monitor that implements FTP, SSH, HTTP, and proprietary protocols in an efficient and secure way.
  • OpenTSDB is a distributed, scalable, Time Series Database written on top of HBase to store, index, and serve the metrics collected from computer systems.
  • Peregrine is a map reduce framework designed for running iterative jobs across partitions of data. Peregrine is designed to be FAST for executing map reduce jobs by supporting a number of optimizations and features not present in other map reduce frameworks.
  • Play Framework is a clean alternative web application framework to J2EE stack, which focuses on developer productivity and targets RESTful architecture.
  • PS3 Media Server is a DLNA compliant UPNP Media Server for PS3 which transcodes and streams any kind of media files.
  • RESTExpress is a lightweight, fast, micro-framework for building stand-alone REST services in Java. It supports JSON and XML serialization automagically as well as ISO 8601 date formats.
  • Restlet Netty extension is a Restlet server extension that provides REST capabilities on top of Netty.
  • Teiid is a data virtualization system that allows applications to use data from multiple, heterogenous data stores.
  • TomP2P is an extended DHT (distributed hash table) which stores values for a location key in a sorted table.
  • Unfiltered is a toolkit for servicing HTTP requests in Scala that provides a consistent vocabulary for handing requests on various server backends.
  • Vert.x - Effortless asynchronous application development for the modern web and enterprise
  • Webbit is an event-based WebSocket and HTTP server.
  • Xitrum is an async and clustered Scala web framework and HTTP(S) server on top of Netty and Hazelcast.

Closed Source Projects and On-line Services

  • Apple uses Netty in their cloud services.
  • ESN Planet is a feature-rich social real-time web platform which scales horizontally and vertically.
  • Kakao Talk is a mobile messenger over 40 million people use. They built their Android push server with Netty.
  • LiquidLabs LogScape is a high performance log visualization tool that scales to thousands of machines; suitable for grid, cloud or SOA applications.
  • RememberTheMilk - check their blog post.
  • Twitter - check their blog post and many of their open source projects.
  • Boundary - monitors the continuously changing environment of distributed applications in real-time
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