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Developing in "Dirty Trunk"

The “dirty trunk” branching strategy involves committing directly to the main branch, with CI builds triggered on each commit. While simple, it requires discipline and quick fixes to maintain build stability. The article discusses pros, cons, and best practices for this approach.

Implementing Automatic Reconnection for Netty Client

One of the first requirement of Netty ISO8588 client connector is the support for automatic reconnect.

One of the first receipts I came across was Thomas Termin’s one. He suggests adding a ChannelHandler which will schedule the calling of client’s connect() method once a Channel becomes inactive. Plus adding ChannelFutureListener which will re-create a bootstrap and re-connect if initial connection was failed.

Although this is a working solution, I had a feeling that something is not optimal. Namely, the new Bootstrap is being created on every connection attempt.

So, I created a FutureListener which should be registered once a Channel is closed.