GUI -- Further work on refactoring Topology View server side code. Still WIP...
- added topology client heartbeat.
- modified AbstractListenerRegistry to allow for extension.

Change-Id: Ib8ea6ad4ba34f5732d062f1c9ef545f105eb167b
diff --git a/web/gui/src/main/java/org/onosproject/ui/impl/topo/ModelListenerRegistry.java b/web/gui/src/main/java/org/onosproject/ui/impl/topo/ModelListenerRegistry.java
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+/*
+ * Copyright 2015 Open Networking Laboratory
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ *
+ */
+
+package org.onosproject.ui.impl.topo;
+
+import org.onosproject.event.AbstractListenerRegistry;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+
+import java.util.HashSet;
+import java.util.Set;
+
+import static org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger;
+
+/**
+ * A listener registry that automatically prunes listeners that have not
+ * been sending heartbeat messages to assure us they are really listening.
+ */
+// package private
+class ModelListenerRegistry
+        extends AbstractListenerRegistry<TopoUiEvent, TopoUiListener> {
+
+    private final Logger log = getLogger(getClass());
+
+    private final Set<TopoUiListener> zombies = new HashSet<>();
+
+    @Override
+    public void process(TopoUiEvent event) {
+        zombies.clear();
+        for (TopoUiListener listener : listeners) {
+            try {
+                if (listener.isAwake()) {
+                    listener.event(event);
+                } else {
+                    zombies.add(listener);
+                }
+            } catch (Exception error) {
+                reportProblem(event, error);
+            }
+        }
+
+        // clean up zombie listeners
+        for (TopoUiListener z : zombies) {
+            log.debug("Removing zombie model listener: {}", z);
+            removeListener(z);
+        }
+    }
+}