Github user knusbaum commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/838#issuecomment-157862156
For the record, the netty messaging layer changes are only to achieve 2
things that were necessary to make the heartbeats work.
- Add Kerberos SASL plugin for the Netty pipeline
- Facilitate generic serialization with INettySerializable
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