Thread Locals (was Re: State of Loom)

[Alen Vrečko]

Some of us will just use reflection to get the carrier thread.

When I went trough the production code and made it play nice with loom. In
most cases I could find nicer alternatives to TL usage. There aren't many
TLs being used anyway. But in one particular case I just gave up. The
alternative is rather involved and in my view convoluted. I opted to get
the carrier thread reference via reflection and used it to make effectively
a TL. Simple and it got the job done.

It might be a good compromise. Find alternatives to TLs. But if there are
no good alternatives, here is a reference to carrier tread, use it at your
own risk.

Alen