I'm interested in using Netty for network communication between a client on one computer and a server on another. The Netty documentation says that the JDK is required to run Netty. However, I'm developing an app that will run on a variety of customer computers, most of which will just have the JRE, not the JDK. I suspect that what the Netty documentation really means is that the JDK (1.5 or 1.6 I think) is required to DEVELOP netty based applications, the deployed application can be run on computers with just the JRE. Is this the case? Can someone experienced with Netty confirm this?
Unfortunately Netty has no easy place to ask this question. the forum just redirects to some user group list that provides some hellish infinite loop of mailing list registration and password requests.
This should be an easy question to answer for anyone who has experience deploing netty based applications on customer computers.