diff --git a/artemis-commons/src/main/java/org/apache/activemq/artemis/utils/Suppliers.java b/artemis-commons/src/main/java/org/apache/activemq/artemis/utils/Suppliers.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..59ccd7782f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/artemis-commons/src/main/java/org/apache/activemq/artemis/utils/Suppliers.java
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you 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.apache.activemq.artemis.utils;
+
+import java.io.Serializable;
+import java.util.function.Supplier;
+
+public class Suppliers {
+
+   /**
+    * Returns a supplier which caches the instance retrieved during the first
+    * call to {@code get()} and returns that value on subsequent calls to
+    * {@code get()}. See:
+    * <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoization">memoization</a>
+    *
+    * <p>The returned supplier is thread-safe. The delegate's {@code get()}
+    * method will be invoked at most once. The supplier's serialized form does
+    * not contain the cached value, which will be recalculated when {@code get()}
+    * is called on the reserialized instance.
+    *
+    * <p>If {@code delegate} is an instance created by an earlier call to {@code
+    * memoize}, it is returned directly.
+    */
+   public static <T> Supplier<T> memoize(Supplier<T> delegate) {
+      return (delegate instanceof MemoizingSupplier)
+            ? delegate
+            : new MemoizingSupplier<T>(checkNotNull(delegate));
+   }
+
+   private static class MemoizingSupplier<T> implements Supplier<T>, Serializable {
+      final Supplier<T> delegate;
+      transient volatile boolean initialized;
+      // "value" does not need to be volatile; visibility piggy-backs
+      // on volatile read of "initialized".
+      transient T value;
+
+      MemoizingSupplier(Supplier<T> delegate) {
+         this.delegate = delegate;
+      }
+
+      @Override
+      public T get() {
+         // A 2-field variant of Double Checked Locking.
+         if (!initialized) {
+            synchronized (this) {
+               if (!initialized) {
+                  T t = delegate.get();
+                  value = t;
+                  initialized = true;
+                  return t;
+               }
+            }
+         }
+         return value;
+      }
+
+      @Override
+      public String toString() {
+         return "Suppliers.memoize(" + delegate + ")";
+      }
+
+      private static final long serialVersionUID = 0;
+   }
+
+   /**
+    * Ensures that an object reference passed as a parameter to the calling method is not null.
+    *
+    * @param reference an object reference
+    * @return the non-null reference that was validated
+    * @throws NullPointerException if {@code reference} is null
+    */
+   public static <T> T checkNotNull(T reference) {
+      if (reference == null) {
+         throw new NullPointerException();
+      }
+      return reference;
+   }
+}
diff --git a/artemis-core-client/src/main/java/org/apache/activemq/artemis/core/message/impl/CoreMessageObjectPools.java b/artemis-core-client/src/main/java/org/apache/activemq/artemis/core/message/impl/CoreMessageObjectPools.java
index d4e3ed1659..7ee7d0a0b4 100644
--- a/artemis-core-client/src/main/java/org/apache/activemq/artemis/core/message/impl/CoreMessageObjectPools.java
+++ b/artemis-core-client/src/main/java/org/apache/activemq/artemis/core/message/impl/CoreMessageObjectPools.java
@@ -16,11 +16,13 @@
  */
 package org.apache.activemq.artemis.core.message.impl;
 
-import com.google.common.base.Supplier;
-import com.google.common.base.Suppliers;
+
 import org.apache.activemq.artemis.api.core.SimpleString;
+import org.apache.activemq.artemis.utils.Suppliers;
 import org.apache.activemq.artemis.utils.collections.TypedProperties;
 
+import java.util.function.Supplier;
+
 public class CoreMessageObjectPools {
 
    private Supplier<SimpleString.ByteBufSimpleStringPool> addressDecoderPool = Suppliers.memoize(SimpleString.ByteBufSimpleStringPool::new);