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Netty Server Startup: Creating the Server Channel

First server-startup phase: Bootstrap configuration produces a concrete listening-channel instance.

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This is a historical learning note and may contain outdated or incomplete understanding.

Starting a Netty server begins from ServerBootstrap configuration and eventually creates the configured server-channel implementation through a channel factory/type.

The new channel contains transport, configuration, pipeline, and lifecycle state but is not yet a listening endpoint. Initialization, registration, and bind occur in subsequent phases.

Exact creation helpers/constructors are version-specific.

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