diff --git a/akka-actor-tests/src/test/scala/akka/config/ConfigSpec.scala b/akka-actor-tests/src/test/scala/akka/config/ConfigSpec.scala
index 521e8d4d4a..67c7a51b60 100644
--- a/akka-actor-tests/src/test/scala/akka/config/ConfigSpec.scala
+++ b/akka-actor-tests/src/test/scala/akka/config/ConfigSpec.scala
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ class ConfigSpec extends AkkaSpec(ConfigFactory.defaultReference) {
       getString("akka.version") must equal("2.0-SNAPSHOT")
       settings.ConfigVersion must equal("2.0-SNAPSHOT")
 
+      getBoolean("akka.daemonic") must equal(false)
+
       getString("akka.actor.default-dispatcher.type") must equal("Dispatcher")
       getMilliseconds("akka.actor.default-dispatcher.keep-alive-time") must equal(60 * 1000)
       getDouble("akka.actor.default-dispatcher.core-pool-size-factor") must equal(3.0)
@@ -45,9 +47,6 @@ class ConfigSpec extends AkkaSpec(ConfigFactory.defaultReference) {
 
       getMilliseconds("akka.scheduler.tickDuration") must equal(100)
       settings.SchedulerTickDuration must equal(100 millis)
-
-      getBoolean("akka.scheduler.daemonic") must equal(true)
-      settings.SchedulerDaemonicity must equal(true)
     }
   }
 }
diff --git a/akka-actor-tests/src/test/scala/akka/routing/RoutingSpec.scala b/akka-actor-tests/src/test/scala/akka/routing/RoutingSpec.scala
index bcf3e6328e..9529854314 100644
--- a/akka-actor-tests/src/test/scala/akka/routing/RoutingSpec.scala
+++ b/akka-actor-tests/src/test/scala/akka/routing/RoutingSpec.scala
@@ -31,10 +31,7 @@ object RoutingSpec {
     """
 
   class TestActor extends Actor {
-    def receive = {
-      case _ ⇒
-        println("Hello")
-    }
+    def receive = { case _ ⇒ }
   }
 
   class Echo extends Actor {
diff --git a/akka-actor/src/main/resources/reference.conf b/akka-actor/src/main/resources/reference.conf
index e90e4f41bf..999c4286c2 100644
--- a/akka-actor/src/main/resources/reference.conf
+++ b/akka-actor/src/main/resources/reference.conf
@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ akka {
   # See the Akka Documentation for more info about Extensions
   extensions = []
 
+  # Toggles whether the threads created by this ActorSystem should be daemons or not
+  daemonic = off
+
   actor {
 
     provider = "akka.actor.LocalActorRefProvider"
@@ -155,9 +158,6 @@ akka {
       # parameters
       type = "Dispatcher"
 
-      # Toggles whether the threads created by this dispatcher should be daemons or not
-      daemonic = off
-
       # Keep alive time for threads
       keep-alive-time = 60s
 
@@ -271,6 +271,5 @@ akka {
     # For more information see: http://www.jboss.org/netty/
     tickDuration = 100ms
     ticksPerWheel = 512
-    daemonic = on
   }
 }
diff --git a/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/actor/ActorSystem.scala b/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/actor/ActorSystem.scala
index 0a646709bc..9fc3946808 100644
--- a/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/actor/ActorSystem.scala
+++ b/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/actor/ActorSystem.scala
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ object ActorSystem {
 
     final val SchedulerTickDuration = Duration(getMilliseconds("akka.scheduler.tickDuration"), MILLISECONDS)
     final val SchedulerTicksPerWheel = getInt("akka.scheduler.ticksPerWheel")
-    final val SchedulerDaemonicity = getBoolean("akka.scheduler.daemonic")
+    final val Daemonicity = getBoolean("akka.daemonic")
 
     if (ConfigVersion != Version)
       throw new ConfigurationException("Akka JAR version [" + Version + "] does not match the provided config version [" + ConfigVersion + "]")
@@ -275,6 +275,7 @@ class ActorSystemImpl(val name: String, applicationConfig: Config) extends Actor
   import ActorSystem._
 
   final val settings = new Settings(applicationConfig, name)
+  final val threadFactory = new MonitorableThreadFactory(name, settings.Daemonicity)
 
   def logConfiguration(): Unit = log.info(settings.toString)
 
@@ -361,7 +362,7 @@ class ActorSystemImpl(val name: String, applicationConfig: Config) extends Actor
     }
   }
 
-  val dispatchers = new Dispatchers(settings, DefaultDispatcherPrerequisites(eventStream, deadLetterMailbox, scheduler))
+  val dispatchers = new Dispatchers(settings, DefaultDispatcherPrerequisites(threadFactory, eventStream, deadLetterMailbox, scheduler))
   val dispatcher = dispatchers.defaultGlobalDispatcher
 
   def terminationFuture: Future[Unit] = provider.terminationFuture
@@ -410,7 +411,7 @@ class ActorSystemImpl(val name: String, applicationConfig: Config) extends Actor
    */
   protected def createScheduler(): Scheduler = {
     val hwt = new HashedWheelTimer(log,
-      new MonitorableThreadFactory("DefaultScheduler", settings.SchedulerDaemonicity),
+      threadFactory.copy(threadFactory.name + "-scheduler"),
       settings.SchedulerTickDuration,
       settings.SchedulerTicksPerWheel)
     // note that dispatcher is by-name parameter in DefaultScheduler constructor,
diff --git a/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/dispatch/AbstractDispatcher.scala b/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/dispatch/AbstractDispatcher.scala
index ff209c8c00..12c8c89d25 100644
--- a/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/dispatch/AbstractDispatcher.scala
+++ b/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/dispatch/AbstractDispatcher.scala
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ abstract class MessageDispatcherConfigurator(val config: Config, val prerequisit
 
     //Apply the following options to the config if they are present in the config
 
-    ThreadPoolConfigDispatcherBuilder(createDispatcher, ThreadPoolConfig(daemonic = config getBoolean "daemonic"))
+    ThreadPoolConfigDispatcherBuilder(createDispatcher, ThreadPoolConfig())
       .setKeepAliveTime(Duration(config getMilliseconds "keep-alive-time", TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS))
       .setAllowCoreThreadTimeout(config getBoolean "allow-core-timeout")
       .setCorePoolSizeFromFactor(config getInt "core-pool-size-min", config getDouble "core-pool-size-factor", config getInt "core-pool-size-max")
diff --git a/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/dispatch/Dispatcher.scala b/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/dispatch/Dispatcher.scala
index 0e72f01681..906c160dce 100644
--- a/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/dispatch/Dispatcher.scala
+++ b/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/dispatch/Dispatcher.scala
@@ -32,7 +32,14 @@ class Dispatcher(
   val shutdownTimeout: Duration)
   extends MessageDispatcher(_prerequisites) {
 
-  protected[akka] val executorServiceFactory = executorServiceFactoryProvider.createExecutorServiceFactory(id)
+  protected[akka] val executorServiceFactory: ExecutorServiceFactory =
+    executorServiceFactoryProvider.createExecutorServiceFactory(
+      id,
+      prerequisites.threadFactory match {
+        case m: MonitorableThreadFactory ⇒ m.copy(m.name + "-" + id)
+        case other                       ⇒ other
+      })
+
   protected[akka] val executorService = new AtomicReference[ExecutorService](new ExecutorServiceDelegate {
     lazy val executor = executorServiceFactory.createExecutorService
   })
diff --git a/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/dispatch/Dispatchers.scala b/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/dispatch/Dispatchers.scala
index 31258c540e..b622c52c74 100644
--- a/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/dispatch/Dispatchers.scala
+++ b/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/dispatch/Dispatchers.scala
@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@
 
 package akka.dispatch
 
-import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit
-import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap
 import akka.actor.newUuid
 import akka.util.{ Duration, ReflectiveAccess }
 import akka.actor.ActorSystem
@@ -17,14 +15,17 @@ import com.typesafe.config.ConfigFactory
 import akka.config.ConfigurationException
 import akka.event.Logging.Warning
 import akka.actor.Props
+import java.util.concurrent.{ ThreadFactory, TimeUnit, ConcurrentHashMap }
 
 trait DispatcherPrerequisites {
+  def threadFactory: ThreadFactory
   def eventStream: EventStream
   def deadLetterMailbox: Mailbox
   def scheduler: Scheduler
 }
 
 case class DefaultDispatcherPrerequisites(
+  val threadFactory: ThreadFactory,
   val eventStream: EventStream,
   val deadLetterMailbox: Mailbox,
   val scheduler: Scheduler) extends DispatcherPrerequisites
diff --git a/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/dispatch/ThreadPoolBuilder.scala b/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/dispatch/ThreadPoolBuilder.scala
index e073e18b66..9601c4dd5e 100644
--- a/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/dispatch/ThreadPoolBuilder.scala
+++ b/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/dispatch/ThreadPoolBuilder.scala
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ object ThreadPoolConfig {
   val defaultCorePoolSize: Int = 16
   val defaultMaxPoolSize: Int = 128
   val defaultTimeout: Duration = Duration(60000L, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS)
+  val defaultRejectionPolicy: RejectedExecutionHandler = new SaneRejectedExecutionHandler()
 
   def scaledPoolSize(floor: Int, multiplier: Double, ceiling: Int): Int = {
     import scala.math.{ min, max }
@@ -54,7 +55,7 @@ trait ExecutorServiceFactory {
  * Generic way to specify an ExecutorService to a Dispatcher, create it with the given name if desired
  */
 trait ExecutorServiceFactoryProvider {
-  def createExecutorServiceFactory(name: String): ExecutorServiceFactory
+  def createExecutorServiceFactory(name: String, threadFactory: ThreadFactory): ExecutorServiceFactory
 }
 
 /**
@@ -65,16 +66,24 @@ case class ThreadPoolConfig(allowCorePoolTimeout: Boolean = ThreadPoolConfig.def
                             maxPoolSize: Int = ThreadPoolConfig.defaultMaxPoolSize,
                             threadTimeout: Duration = ThreadPoolConfig.defaultTimeout,
                             queueFactory: ThreadPoolConfig.QueueFactory = ThreadPoolConfig.linkedBlockingQueue(),
-                            daemonic: Boolean = false)
+                            rejectionPolicy: RejectedExecutionHandler = ThreadPoolConfig.defaultRejectionPolicy)
   extends ExecutorServiceFactoryProvider {
   class ThreadPoolExecutorServiceFactory(val threadFactory: ThreadFactory) extends ExecutorServiceFactory {
     def createExecutorService: ExecutorService = {
-      val service = new ThreadPoolExecutor(corePoolSize, maxPoolSize, threadTimeout.length, threadTimeout.unit, queueFactory(), threadFactory, new SaneRejectedExecutionHandler)
+      val service = new ThreadPoolExecutor(
+        corePoolSize,
+        maxPoolSize,
+        threadTimeout.length,
+        threadTimeout.unit,
+        queueFactory(),
+        threadFactory,
+        rejectionPolicy)
       service.allowCoreThreadTimeOut(allowCorePoolTimeout)
       service
     }
   }
-  final def createExecutorServiceFactory(name: String): ExecutorServiceFactory = new ThreadPoolExecutorServiceFactory(new MonitorableThreadFactory(name, daemonic))
+  final def createExecutorServiceFactory(name: String, threadFactory: ThreadFactory): ExecutorServiceFactory =
+    new ThreadPoolExecutorServiceFactory(threadFactory)
 }
 
 trait DispatcherBuilder {
@@ -143,16 +152,20 @@ case class ThreadPoolConfigDispatcherBuilder(dispatcherFactory: (ThreadPoolConfi
   def configure(fs: Option[Function[ThreadPoolConfigDispatcherBuilder, ThreadPoolConfigDispatcherBuilder]]*): ThreadPoolConfigDispatcherBuilder = fs.foldLeft(this)((c, f) ⇒ f.map(_(c)).getOrElse(c))
 }
 
-class MonitorableThreadFactory(val name: String, val daemonic: Boolean = false) extends ThreadFactory {
+object MonitorableThreadFactory {
+  val doNothing: Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler =
+    new Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler() { def uncaughtException(thread: Thread, cause: Throwable) = () }
+}
+
+case class MonitorableThreadFactory(name: String,
+                                    daemonic: Boolean,
+                                    exceptionHandler: Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler = MonitorableThreadFactory.doNothing)
+  extends ThreadFactory {
   protected val counter = new AtomicLong
-  protected val doNothing: Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler =
-    new Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler() {
-      def uncaughtException(thread: Thread, cause: Throwable) = {}
-    }
 
   def newThread(runnable: Runnable) = {
     val t = new Thread(runnable, name + counter.incrementAndGet())
-    t.setUncaughtExceptionHandler(doNothing)
+    t.setUncaughtExceptionHandler(exceptionHandler)
     t.setDaemon(daemonic)
     t
   }
diff --git a/akka-docs/scala/code/akka/docs/actor/TypedActorDocSpec.scala b/akka-docs/scala/code/akka/docs/actor/TypedActorDocSpec.scala
index f292b39a7c..da718b503d 100644
--- a/akka-docs/scala/code/akka/docs/actor/TypedActorDocSpec.scala
+++ b/akka-docs/scala/code/akka/docs/actor/TypedActorDocSpec.scala
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ class SquarerImpl(val name: String) extends Squarer {
   //#typed-actor-impl-methods
 }
 //#typed-actor-impl
-
+import java.lang.Integer.{ parseInt ⇒ println } //Mr funny man avoids printing to stdout AND keeping docs alright
 //#typed-actor-supercharge
 trait Foo {
   def doFoo(times: Int): Unit = println("doFoo(" + times + ")")
diff --git a/akka-docs/scala/code/akka/docs/dispatcher/DispatcherDocSpec.scala b/akka-docs/scala/code/akka/docs/dispatcher/DispatcherDocSpec.scala
index 2747da9f91..d0e0945fe8 100644
--- a/akka-docs/scala/code/akka/docs/dispatcher/DispatcherDocSpec.scala
+++ b/akka-docs/scala/code/akka/docs/dispatcher/DispatcherDocSpec.scala
@@ -22,8 +22,6 @@ object DispatcherDocSpec {
     my-dispatcher {
       # Dispatcher is the name of the event-based dispatcher
       type = Dispatcher
-      # Toggles whether the threads created by this dispatcher should be daemons or not
-      daemonic = off
       # minimum number of threads to cap factor-based core number to
       core-pool-size-min = 2
       # No of core threads ... ceil(available processors * factor)
diff --git a/akka-remote/src/main/resources/reference.conf b/akka-remote/src/main/resources/reference.conf
index a89508982c..cac020bf70 100644
--- a/akka-remote/src/main/resources/reference.conf
+++ b/akka-remote/src/main/resources/reference.conf
@@ -59,9 +59,6 @@ akka {
     # Reuse inbound connections for outbound messages
     use-passive-connections = on
 
-    # Whether any Threds created by the remoting should be daemons or not
-    daemonic = on
-
     # accrual failure detection config
     failure-detector {
 
@@ -84,13 +81,11 @@ akka {
     compute-grid-dispatcher {
       # defaults to same settings as default-dispatcher
       name = ComputeGridDispatcher
-      daemonic = on
     }
 
     # The dispatcher used for the system actor "network-event-sender"
     network-event-sender-dispatcher {
       type = PinnedDispatcher
-      daemonic = on
     }
 
     server {
diff --git a/akka-remote/src/main/scala/akka/remote/RemoteSettings.scala b/akka-remote/src/main/scala/akka/remote/RemoteSettings.scala
index ad4fd2625e..4a3e869271 100644
--- a/akka-remote/src/main/scala/akka/remote/RemoteSettings.scala
+++ b/akka-remote/src/main/scala/akka/remote/RemoteSettings.scala
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ class RemoteSettings(val config: Config, val systemName: String) {
   import config._
 
   val RemoteTransport = getString("akka.remote.transport")
-  val Daemonic = getBoolean("akka.remote.daemonic")
   val FailureDetectorThreshold = getInt("akka.remote.failure-detector.threshold")
   val FailureDetectorMaxSampleSize = getInt("akka.remote.failure-detector.max-sample-size")
   val ShouldCompressData = getBoolean("akka.remote.use-compression")
diff --git a/akka-remote/src/main/scala/akka/remote/netty/NettyRemoteSupport.scala b/akka-remote/src/main/scala/akka/remote/netty/NettyRemoteSupport.scala
index bfb30bc940..600e49290b 100644
--- a/akka-remote/src/main/scala/akka/remote/netty/NettyRemoteSupport.scala
+++ b/akka-remote/src/main/scala/akka/remote/netty/NettyRemoteSupport.scala
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ class NettyRemoteSupport(_system: ActorSystemImpl, val remote: Remote, val addre
 
   val serverSettings = remote.remoteSettings.serverSettings
   val clientSettings = remote.remoteSettings.clientSettings
-  val threadFactory = new MonitorableThreadFactory("NettyRemoteSupport", remote.remoteSettings.Daemonic)
+  val threadFactory = _system.threadFactory.copy(_system.threadFactory.name + "-remote")
   val timer: HashedWheelTimer = new HashedWheelTimer
   val executor = new OrderedMemoryAwareThreadPoolExecutor(
     serverSettings.ExecutionPoolSize,
@@ -535,23 +535,24 @@ class NettyRemoteServer(
     Executors.newCachedThreadPool(remoteSupport.threadFactory),
     Executors.newCachedThreadPool(remoteSupport.threadFactory))
 
-  private val bootstrap = new ServerBootstrap(factory)
-
   private val executionHandler = new ExecutionHandler(remoteSupport.executor)
 
   // group of open channels, used for clean-up
   private val openChannels: ChannelGroup = new DefaultDisposableChannelGroup("akka-remote-server")
 
   val pipelineFactory = new RemoteServerPipelineFactory(name, openChannels, executionHandler, loader, remoteSupport)
-  bootstrap.setPipelineFactory(pipelineFactory)
-  bootstrap.setOption("backlog", Backlog)
-  bootstrap.setOption("child.tcpNoDelay", true)
-  bootstrap.setOption("child.keepAlive", true)
-  bootstrap.setOption("child.reuseAddress", true)
-  bootstrap.setOption("child.connectTimeoutMillis", ConnectionTimeout.toMillis)
+  private val bootstrap: ServerBootstrap = {
+    val b = new ServerBootstrap(factory)
+    b.setPipelineFactory(pipelineFactory)
+    b.setOption("backlog", Backlog)
+    b.setOption("child.tcpNoDelay", true)
+    b.setOption("child.keepAlive", true)
+    b.setOption("child.reuseAddress", true)
+    b.setOption("child.connectTimeoutMillis", ConnectionTimeout.toMillis)
+    b
+  }
 
   openChannels.add(bootstrap.bind(new InetSocketAddress(address.transport.ip.get, address.transport.port)))
-  remoteSupport.notifyListeners(RemoteServerStarted(remoteSupport))
 
   def shutdown() {
     try {
diff --git a/akka-remote/src/test/scala/akka/remote/RemoteConfigSpec.scala b/akka-remote/src/test/scala/akka/remote/RemoteConfigSpec.scala
index 49502b99ea..03a343f3b1 100644
--- a/akka-remote/src/test/scala/akka/remote/RemoteConfigSpec.scala
+++ b/akka-remote/src/test/scala/akka/remote/RemoteConfigSpec.scala
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ class RemoteConfigSpec extends AkkaSpec("") {
       getString("akka.remote.secure-cookie") must equal("")
       getBoolean("akka.remote.use-passive-connections") must equal(true)
       getMilliseconds("akka.remote.backoff-timeout") must equal(0)
-      getBoolean("akka.remote.daemonic") must equal(true)
       // getMilliseconds("akka.remote.remote-daemon-ack-timeout") must equal(30 * 1000)
 
       //akka.remote.server