Added a public getter method to get rid of an eclipse warning about an unused field - I'm not sure what its for at the moment or whether we'll need it in future
This is a generic class to use to send messages between api calls when things go wrong rather than doing each one in an adhoc way
A generic hibernateutil and hibernatefilter to use instead of ad-hoc ones in each project.  I've updated the pom too to have the new dependencies in it