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

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Date:   Tue Feb 12 22:19:21 2013 -0800

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

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Date:   Tue Feb 12 16:19:20 2013 -0800

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

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Date:   Sat Feb 9 09:29:33 2013 -0800

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

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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

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Date:   Thu Feb 7 18:26:01 2013 -0800

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

commit 2a96cb044b517206f04049ca4990ec1d93ef5d02
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Date:   Thu Feb 7 18:03:18 2013 -0800

    Fix a number of issues identified by FindBugs

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

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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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Date:   Wed Feb 6 11:23:08 2013 -0800

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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

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

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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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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
Add 'openflowhost' parameter for core.FloodlightProvider.
Add an alternative getConfigParams() to access config via class references.
Add 'host' parameter to RestServerApi.
Handle 'port' parameter of Jython in a similar way to REST and Controller classes.
Fix DebugServer#run_server() to use 'host' parameter.
Add 'host' parameter to JythonServer and JythonDebugInterface.
Add @Delete handling in NoOp.java
Merge pull request #380 from kwanggithub/master

Add @Delete in NoOp.java to handle quantum delete port
replace 0xffffffff with OFPacketOut.BUFFER_ID_NONE