Anyone mind if I pull in the Guava library as a dependency for Common? It has a bunch of very useful utilities - in this particular case the one I'm itching to use is ThreadFactoryBuilder:
http://guava-libraries.googlecode.com/svn/tags/release05/javadoc/com/google/common/util/concurrent/ThreadFactoryBuilder.html More info here: http://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/ -Todd -- Todd Lipcon Software Engineer, Cloudera
