- define checkstyle configs in as few places as possible
- use checkstyle:check since it has defaults that match what we want (fail after logging to console)
- modules that have current failures set property checkstyle.failOnViolation to false.

Again, a lot of whitespace changes and the normal checkstyle type errors.

2 items of note:

1. Deprecated QueueElement since it is not used.
2. Moved some of the exception handling to common locations to remove
   empty catch blocks.

As a part of branching to stage 0.2.0 release in #266, set version
for continued development on master branch.

* remove unused declared deps in a few places
* lex sort modules in top level pom
* update maven plugin versions.
* no more jar-with-dependencies
* set ycsb-core to provided in bindings
* introduce a bindings-parent pom that sets
** stage dependency copy on building binding
** iff binding has a README.md, build a binding-specific dist artifact
* update distribution assembly to
** properly build after modules
** use per-binding sets of dependencies

closes #250

* Need a SNAPSHOT version because non-SNAPSHOT is reserved for actual releases.
* Increment minor version per pre-1.0 guidelines from the Version Numbers guide

Fixes #236.

* Increment Accumulo Version to 1.6.0
* Fix accumulo dependency versions
  - Harmonize guava version for Accumulo.
  - Automatically manage slf4j version.
* Clean up depr. code
* Clean up return codes and error logging

* set .gitignore to standard eclipse
* update versions of Accumulo to 1.4.4
* Pin slf4j binding to 1.5.8

Accumulo, Thrift, and YCSB all use different versions of slf4j, causing
runtime issues because everything is bundled together. Pin the version
to something in the middle that seems to work, even if it's not the
latest and greatest version.

Based on YCSB++

http://www.pdl.cmu.edu/ycsb++/