* Implemented deferred (late) producer registration.
* Consolidated write(OFMessage, FloodlightContext) and
  write(List<OFMessage>, FloodlightContext); the latter now invokes
  the former.
* Removed (currently) unused interface.
* Added flush () to write (List<OFMessage>, FloodlightContext).
Merge pull request #365 from mwfong/producerconsumer

OFSwitchBase write() Consolidation
Revert consolidation changes to write() methods
Merge pull request #375 from kwanggithub/master

Revert consolidation changes to write() methods
Floodlight subtree update

Squashed commit of the following:

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Author: Gregor Maier <gregor.maier@bigswitch.com>
Date:   Thu Feb 14 12:52:36 2013 -0800

    Use more aggressive findbugs settings for eclipse plugin.

    Need to run "ant eclipse" to get the new settings.

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Date:   Wed Feb 13 16:27:06 2013 -0800

    ant eclipse: create project specific config for FindBugs plugin

    When creating the eclipse project files we also create a project
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Author: Gregor Maier <gregor.maier@bigswitch.com>
Date:   Wed Feb 13 16:15:37 2013 -0800

    Don't put project specific eclipse settings in git

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Author: Kanzhe Jiang <kanzhe.jiang@bigswitch.com>
Date:   Wed Feb 13 00:03:07 2013 -0800

    add debug log

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Author: Kanzhe Jiang <kanzhe.jiang@bigswitch.com>
Date:   Tue Feb 12 22:19:21 2013 -0800

    order the IDeviceListeners

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Author: Andreas Wundsam <andreas.wundsam@bigswitch.com>
Date:   Tue Feb 12 16:21:13 2013 -0800

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Author: Andreas Wundsam <andreas.wundsam@bigswitch.com>
Date:   Tue Feb 12 16:19:20 2013 -0800

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Date:   Sun Feb 10 10:20:59 2013 -0800

    Fix findbugs issue in Forwarding module.

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Author: Srinivasan Ramasubramanian <srini@bigswitch.com>
Date:   Sat Feb 9 09:29:33 2013 -0800

    Minor changes to autoportfast default.  Remove "final" to allow default to be changed, if needed.

commit 1b3727767cc097db4e5488abf7ea0c0860b02369
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Date:   Fri Feb 8 18:15:20 2013 -0800

    undo SuppressWarning change

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Date:   Fri Feb 8 11:32:24 2013 -0800

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Date:   Thu Feb 7 14:24:49 2013 -0800

    add findbugs-exclude.xml

commit e3ff611e95de692ad86bcabb80fa22b169df0d87
Author: Andreas Wundsam <andreas.wundsam@bigswitch.com>
Date:   Fri Feb 8 10:17:59 2013 -0800

    add jars for Findbugs ignore annotations

    Conflicts:

    	floodlight/build.xml
    	floodlight/src/test/java/net/floodlightcontroller/devicemanager/internal/DeviceManagerImplTest.java

commit a70d25ebd62f70af0197584079faaed06df33604
Author: Rob Adams <rob.adams@bigswitch.com>
Date:   Fri Feb 8 13:46:38 2013 -0800

    Remove unused imports

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Date:   Thu Feb 7 18:33:00 2013 -0800

    Use a set instead of a list to disallow duplicate entries for ignoring MAC

commit e04417fb59c84ad45c0603946ae49609987c9f87
Author: Sudeep Modi <sudeep.modi@bigswitch.com>
Date:   Thu Feb 7 18:26:01 2013 -0800

    Add functionality to link discovery manager to ignore packets from certain MAC addresses

commit 2a96cb044b517206f04049ca4990ec1d93ef5d02
Author: Rob Adams <rob.adams@bigswitch.com>
Date:   Thu Feb 7 18:03:18 2013 -0800

    Fix a number of issues identified by FindBugs

commit fa73be54a2763ef429f092a23abfd917a8099f09
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Date:   Wed Feb 6 18:02:27 2013 -0800

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Merge: 5f0f2d5 1d5e532
Author: Saurav Das <saurav.das@bigswitch.com>
Date:   Wed Feb 6 11:25:38 2013 -0800

    Merge branch 'master' of github.com:bigswitch/bigswitchcontroller

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Author: Saurav Das <saurav.das@bigswitch.com>
Date:   Wed Feb 6 11:23:08 2013 -0800

    Handling portnum correctly in portstats reply when serializing for json in response to a rest call

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Date:   Tue Feb 5 22:41:32 2013 -0800

    Minor code fixes due to FindBugs report.

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Author: abat <abat@bigswitch.com>
Date:   Tue Feb 5 17:21:46 2013 -0800

    Merge into master from pull request #2491: Fix NPE in LinkDiscoveryManager.java

commit acad9eff8015f2758c588fd98fd6fdc736982f08
Author: Srinivasan Ramasubramanian <srini@bigswitch.com>
Date:   Tue Feb 5 16:47:35 2013 -0800

    Fix NPE in LinkDiscoveryManager.java

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Author: abat <abat@bigswitch.com>
Date:   Tue Feb 5 15:06:38 2013 -0800

    Merge into master from pull request #2489: Bugfix. Should check if portBroadcastDomainLinks contains NodePortTuple, and not long.

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Author: Srinivasan Ramasubramanian <srini@bigswitch.com>
Date:   Tue Feb 5 14:55:23 2013 -0800

    Bugfix.  Should check if portBroadcastDomainLinks contains NodePortTuple, and not long.

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Author: abat <abat@bigswitch.com>
Date:   Tue Feb 5 14:01:24 2013 -0800

    Merge into master from pull request #2488: Fix consistency and rest output for None/null values

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Author: Ronald Li <ronald.li@bigswitch.com>
Date:   Tue Feb 5 13:14:09 2013 -0800

    Make null values not show up in the rest output

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Author: Srinivasan Ramasubramanian <srini@bigswitch.com>
Date:   Tue Feb 5 09:44:39 2013 -0800

    Option to flush or not flush flow tables on a switch through properties file.

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Author: Shudong Zhou <shudongzhou@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu Jan 31 00:59:16 2013 -0800

    Fix singleton task initialization

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Author: Shudong Zhou <shudongzhou@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Jan 30 21:58:22 2013 -0800

    Send HA role request to switch when master controller gets permission error

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Author: Shudong Zhou <shudongzhou@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Jan 30 20:33:51 2013 -0800

    Dampen frequency of HA role transitions

commit ed7c1bd030ce6826510c52427ccea1f8631e09fa
Author: Shudong Zhou <shudongzhou@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Jan 30 20:04:43 2013 -0800

    Update unit test for HA role change

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Author: abat <abat@bigswitch.com>
Date:   Wed Jan 30 16:27:28 2013 -0800

    Merge into master from pull request #2414: lower a message level to trace

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Author: Kanzhe Jiang <kanzhe.jiang@bigswitch.com>
Date:   Wed Jan 30 14:55:52 2013 -0800

    lower log level to info

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Author: Gregor Maier <gregor.maier@bigswitch.com>
Date:   Wed Jan 30 10:10:07 2013 -0800

    Adding debug logging to SwitchPortMatcher. Tweak log levels.

    We'll now log when SwitchPortMatcher can't find the switch or port for a
    packet its trying to match.

commit ca75639f53067087be0b308e3aa72e07bf75d924
Author: Srinivasan Ramasubramanian <srini@bigswitch.com>
Date:   Tue Jan 29 12:20:13 2013 -0800

    Bug fix: When tunnel links are identified, they should not be added to topology switchportlinks.  Update unit tests.

commit 3ee7da2f062834929212a568bf07cb462eb41979
Author: kwanggithub <kwang@clemson.edu>
Date:   Mon Jan 28 11:51:52 2013 -0800

    refactor loadbalancer to not use StaticFlowEntries

commit a0cac00f334970199ca2af9679d927d69fa539ab
Author: Kanzhe Jiang <kanzhe.jiang@bigswitch.com>
Date:   Sun Jan 27 18:05:23 2013 -0800

    notify listeners for device classification first, then listeners for reconcile.

commit 5925b52aa2f0d7aae290dd22d30626bf81e879c3
Author: Srinivasan Ramasubramanian <srini@bigswitch.com>
Date:   Wed Jan 23 01:24:29 2013 -0800

    Refactoring some methods to better support extensibility.

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Author: abat <abat@bigswitch.com>
Date:   Mon Jan 21 17:22:21 2013 -0800

    Merge into master from pull request #2255

commit 9f1613e936c5b9485a798486e19670b8dc2dd8eb
Author: Gregor Maier <gregor.maier@bigswitch.com>
Date:   Sat Jan 19 23:25:48 2013 -0800

    Don't use vlans from devices. Use explicitly specified VLAN.

commit 1d88cbff4bc53f8936145abc8ca653fa0d58c9ce
Author: Ronald Li <ronald.li@bigswitch.com>
Date:   Thu Jan 10 18:08:39 2013 -0800
Merge pull request #376 from kwanggithub/master

floodlight subtree update
Upgrading Virtual Network Filter to latest bigswitch/quantum plugin (/networkService/v1.1)
Merge pull request #377 from kwanggithub/master

Upgrading Virtual Network Filter to networkService/v1.1 and fix NPE in NetworkResource
Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master'