Netty-tcnative is a fork of tomcat native, the native interface used by tomcat to leverage the apache portable runtime and provide superior scalability, performance, and better integration with native server technologies.

netty-tcnative includes a set of changes contributed by twitter, inc, such as:
* simplified distribution and linkage of native library
* complete mavenization of the project
* improved openssl support
this package contains the jni library.