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Eclipse Vert.x is a polyglot event-driven application framework that runs on the Java virtual machine.

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Vert.x core contains fairly low-level functionality, including support for HTTP, TCP, file system access, and various other features. You can use this directly in your own applications, and it's used by many of the other components of Vert.x. For more information on Vert.x and where Vert.x core fits into the big picture please see the website. Vert.x supports native transport on BSD and Linux, to run the tests with native transport Vert.x supports domain sockets on Linux exclusively, to run the tests with domain sockets Vert.x has integrations tests that run a differently configured JVM (classpath, system properties, etc....)

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free software
Official website
vertx.io
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source code repository URL
github.com/eclipse-vertx/vert.x
software version identifier
5.0.11
copyright license
Eclipse Public License
programmed in
Java
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Eclipse Vert.x is a polyglot event-driven application framework that runs on the Java virtual machine.

Similar environments written in other programming languages include Node.js for JavaScript, Twisted for Python, Perl Object Environment for Perl, libevent for C, reactPHP and amphp for PHP and EventMachine for Ruby.

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