I wanted to write a decent guide book for the Netty project to help users get started with it very quickly, but it was not really easy to learn DocBook XML and to learn how to override several default JBoss.org DocBook stylesheet settings within a short period of time. Especially, I had no idea how XSL FO works when I saw it first time.

Finally, the first chapter of the Netty User Guide is now public. Other chapters are still to be written, but it’s better than having nothing. It’s available in HTML and PDF. Check it out now and give me some feed back!