sonatype/nexus — comment on commit 9b5bb0a428eff1dd14550d603d8ebd7d47b6f23e
File: nexus/nexus-app/src/main/java/org/sonatype/nexus/events/DefaultEventInspectorHost.java line 145
By mhansen-sonatype:

Trivial... I don't think the isShutdown() call is necessary -- the call to execute() will execute the call synchronously if it is -- and it doesn't looks like hostThreadPool can ever be null (declared final and initialized on construction).