cleaned-up to give better help and javadoc
diff --git a/apps/foo/src/main/java/org/onlab/onos/foo/NettyNothingHandler.java b/apps/foo/src/main/java/org/onlab/onos/foo/NettyNothingHandler.java
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+++ b/apps/foo/src/main/java/org/onlab/onos/foo/NettyNothingHandler.java
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+package org.onlab.onos.foo;
+
+import org.onlab.netty.Message;
+import org.onlab.netty.MessageHandler;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+/**
+ * A MessageHandler that simply logs the information.
+ */
+public class NettyNothingHandler implements MessageHandler {
+
+    private final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(getClass());
+
+    @Override
+    public void handle(Message message) {
+      // Do nothing
+    }
+}