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anish
anish

Reputation: 7412

netty backward compatiblity with older library

My netty project uses consumes old version of netty (3.X series) now when i see the 4.x version there is significant difference in the declaration of the package for e.g in 3.9 libary we have import declaration starting with org.jboss 

import org.jboss.netty.bootstrap.ClientBootstrap;
import org.jboss.netty.channel.Channel;
import org.jboss.netty.channel.ChannelFuture;
import org.jboss.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannelFactory;

in 4.x 

import io.netty.bootstrap.ServerBootstrap;
import io.netty.buffer.ByteBuf;
import io.netty.buffer.Unpooled;
import io.netty.channel.ChannelFuture;
import io.netty.channel.ChannelFutureListener;
import io.netty.channel.ChannelHandlerContext;

it causes me recompile the entire project with new imports, the client(end users) still using the old version of library and might not be interested in upgrade with new library, does netty will will be backword compatible with old API

Upvotes: 0

Views: 551

Answers (1)

Septem
Septem

Reputation: 3622

netty 4 is not backward compatible with netty 3, but if by "client" you mean remote peer, it is ok to upgrade your server and keep compatible with client. the client just communicates with server over tcp stack and it doesn't care about how the server is implemented.

Upvotes: 1

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