took a pass through warnings. some dependency tweaks. eclipse didn't
like an empty test class (made it abstract). added jetty plugin to
enable "mvn jetty:run"  
ignore generated tomcat logs folder when using jetty:run
openshift hooks
added (my) openshift url to the readme you may want to make it yours. 
Merge pull request #1 from simbo1905/master

added files and steps to deploy on redhat openshift