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NOTE

Netty Core Components

The roles of Bootstrap, EventLoopGroup, EventLoop, Channel, Pipeline, Handler, Future, and ByteBuf.

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This is a historical learning note and may contain outdated or incomplete understanding.

Core Netty concepts are:

  • Bootstrap / ServerBootstrap: configure and initiate client/server channels;
  • EventLoopGroup: owns event-loop executors;
  • EventLoop: processes events/tasks for assigned channels;
  • Channel: network I/O endpoint abstraction;
  • ChannelPipeline: ordered handler chain;
  • inbound/outbound handlers: transform/react to events and operations;
  • ChannelFuture: asynchronous completion;
  • ByteBuf: Netty’s byte container with reader/writer indexes and optional reference counting/pooling.

Understanding ownership and thread confinement between these pieces is more valuable than memorizing one class hierarchy.