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javanetty
user2626222
user2626222

Reputation: 169

Netty4 application as both client and a server

I want to write a program in Netty4 that should act as a server to other clients and also it itself is a client to another server. How to do this in Netty4? So far all examples I have seen are either client or server. Thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 155

Answers (1)

axtavt
axtavt

Reputation: 242686

There are no special difficulties here. You need to create a part that will act as a server (using ServerBootstrap), and a part that will act as a client (using Bootstrap).

If you need to establish a connection to another server while handling incoming connection from a client, you can place that logic into a ChannelHandler of the server's pipeline.

Netty provides two examples of this approach:

Upvotes: 1

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