akka/akka — pull request #831 by drewhk (2012-10-29 15:36:58+00:00)
Title: New Remoting implementation (iteration 3) #2053

Fixed recommendations from iteration 2, fixed dozens of TODOs and added NettyTransport

- Asynchronous lockless remoting
- Pluggable transport drivers
- Multiple transport support
- Simplified lifecycle events
- Support for netty based TCP, SSL+TCP and UDP support
- Updated Akka protocol with soft-state connections and failure detection
- Refactored failure detectors (currently duplicated from cluster)