The Solution 解决 · Netty 4.x User Guide 中文翻译《Netty 4.x 用户指南》 https://waylau.gitbooks.io/netty-4-user-guide/Preface/The%20Solution.html
Netty 是一个提供 asynchronous event-driven （异步事件驱动）的网络应用框架，是一个用以快速开发高性能、可扩展协议的服务器和客户端。
换句话说，Netty 是一个 NIO 客户端服务器框架，使用它可以快速简单地开发网络应用程序，比如服务器和客户端的协议。Netty 大大简化了网络程序的开发过程比如 TCP 和 UDP 的 socket 服务的开发。
“快速和简单”并不意味着应用程序会有难维护和性能低的问题，Netty 是一个精心设计的框架，它从许多协议的实现中吸收了很多的经验比如 FTP、SMTP、HTTP、许多二进制和基于文本的传统协议.因此，Netty 已经成功地找到一个方式,在不失灵活性的前提下来实现开发的简易性，高性能，稳定性。
有一些用户可能已经发现其他的一些网络框架也声称自己有同样的优势，所以你可能会问是 Netty 和它们的不同之处。答案就是 Netty 的哲学设计理念。Netty 从开始就为用户提供了用户体验最好的 API 以及实现设计。正是因为 Netty 的哲学设计理念，才让您得以轻松地阅读本指南并使用 Netty。
Netty.docs: User guide for 4.x https://netty.io/wiki/user-guide-for-4.x.html#wiki-h2-2
The Solution
The Netty project is an effort to provide an asynchronous event-driven network application framework and tooling for the rapid development of maintainable high-performance · high-scalability protocol servers and clients.
In other words, Netty is an NIO client server framework that enables quick and easy development of network applications such as protocol servers and clients. It greatly simplifies and streamlines network programming such as TCP and UDP socket server development.
'Quick and easy' does not mean that a resulting application will suffer from a maintainability or a performance issue. Netty has been designed carefully with the experiences learned from the implementation of a lot of protocols such as FTP, SMTP, HTTP, and various binary and text-based legacy protocols. As a result, Netty has succeeded to find a way to achieve ease of development, performance, stability, and flexibility without a compromise.
Some users might already have found other network application framework that claims to have the same advantage, and you might want to ask what makes Netty so different from them. The answer is the philosophy it is built on. Netty is designed to give you the most comfortable experience both in terms of the API and the implementation from the day one. It is not something tangible but you will realize that this philosophy will make your life much easier as you read this guide and play with Netty.