Consider using netty

[eswdd]

In theory could combine jetty and socket transports into a single unified transport..

Is supposedly faster than mina and is async all throughout.

[richardqd]

Could we drop hessian at the same time? Perf/correctness wins the day here!

On 3 December 2014 at 14:30, Simon Matic Langford [email protected]
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In theory could combine jetty and socket transports into a single unified
transport..

Is supposedly faster than mina and is async all throughout.

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#92.

[eswdd]

was planning to add a pluggable serialisation mechanism as part #61 which would in theory allow us to prefer non-hessian where available on both sides.

the challenge of switching netty for mina is maintaining compatibility during the switch - unless we support both for a period with a breaking change on the transport, which is less preferable i think.

I reckon we'd have to do something a bit cleverer around how we test the binary transport and compatibility before doing that - produce a test binary with each version which could be run on future versions for example.