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Netty Server Startup Overview

ServerBootstrap to active listener: channel creation, initialization, event-loop registration, and bind.

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This is a historical learning note and may contain outdated or incomplete understanding.

Netty server startup has four stable conceptual phases: create channel → initialize pipeline/options → register with an event loop → bind/listen.

After activation, the parent channel accepts connections; each child is initialized and registered with a worker event loop, then its inbound/outbound events travel through its own pipeline.

This model remains useful across Netty releases even when the exact internal methods/classes change.

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