[core] Fixing squid:S1319 -  Declarations should use Java collection interfaces such as "List" rather than specific implementation classes such as "LinkedList".
(manolama - updated bindings added since the PR)

Signed-off-by: Chris Larsen <clarsen@yahoo-inc.com>

clear containers before we use them rather than after, so that in the case of
exceptions we can recover.

closes #127

- 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.

[core, Cassandra, gemfire, mapkeeper] Fixing squid:S2864 -  "entrySet()" should be iterated when both the key and value are needed

[cassandra cassandra2 dynamodb hbase098 hbase10 jdbc s3] Fixing squid:S1481 - Unused local variables should be removed

Replaces numeric status codes with a canonical set of Status objects,
each with a short name and description.
Bindings with more specific errors (e.g., timeouts) return additional
statuses.

This changes the default output from messages like:

   [UPDATE], Return=0, 511

To:

   [UPDATE], Return=OK, 511

The CassandraCQL client defines a number of

* Changes the default port to 9042 (this is the default CQL port).
* Changes property "host" from a space-separated list to property
  "hosts", a comma-separated list.
* Updates a few messages.

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

This includes changes to main pom for the v1.2.9 cassandra driver.

closes #145

* 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.