Moved Netty messaging out of onos-core-dist to under onos-utils
diff --git a/utils/netty/src/main/java/org/onlab/netty/messaging/KryoSerializer.java b/utils/netty/src/main/java/org/onlab/netty/messaging/KryoSerializer.java
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+++ b/utils/netty/src/main/java/org/onlab/netty/messaging/KryoSerializer.java
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+package org.onlab.netty;
+
+import org.onlab.util.KryoPool;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+
+/**
+ * Kryo Serializer.
+ */
+public class KryoSerializer implements Serializer {
+
+    private final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(getClass());
+
+    private KryoPool serializerPool;
+
+    public KryoSerializer() {
+        setupKryoPool();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Sets up the common serialzers pool.
+     */
+    protected void setupKryoPool() {
+        // FIXME Slice out types used in common to separate pool/namespace.
+        serializerPool = KryoPool.newBuilder()
+                .register(ArrayList.class,
+                          HashMap.class,
+                          ArrayList.class
+                )
+                .build()
+                .populate(1);
+    }
+
+
+    @Override
+    public Object decode(byte[] data) {
+        return serializerPool.deserialize(data);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public byte[] encode(Object payload) {
+        return serializerPool.serialize(payload);
+    }
+}