The Network project is an encrypted, high-performance, event-driven/reactive Network stack with DNS and RMI, using Netty, Kryo, KryoNet RMI, and LZ4 via TCP/UDP/UDT.
These are the main features:
- The connection between endpoints is AES256-GCM / EC curve25519.
- The connection data is LZ4 compressed and byte-packed for small payload sizes.
- The connection supports:
- Remote Method Invocation
- Blocking
- Non-Blocking
- Void returns
- Exceptions can be returned
- Sending data when Idle
- "Pinging" the remote end (for measuring round-trip time)
- Please note that Java6 runtimes have issues with their classloader loading classes recursively (you will get a StackOverflow exception). We have taken precautions to mitigate this, but be aware that it is a very real possibility. We recommend using Java7+ to prevent this issue.
This project includes some utility classes that are a small subset of a much larger library. These classes are **kept in sync** with the main utilities library, so "jar hell" is not an issue, and the latest release will always include the same version of utility files as all of the other projects in the dorkbox repository at that time.
Please note that the utility source code is included in the release and on our [GitHub](https://github.com/dorkbox/Utilities) repository.