As you might have seen that I pushed the initial merged code from Brent, Evan & Aswin that covers
the Netty, JSON-RPC & Jackson based marshal/marshaling.
There is lot more work left still on the library side before getting the plugin stuffs to be fully integrated and operational. am working on it full time to get the library work done this week and hoping to give a talk on this on our weekly call next week.
I will also go ahead and add the missing pieces in Trello so that anyone interested and have time can jump in and start hashing it out on the topic/netty branch.