Updated version and dependency elements, most importantly oracle jdbc
driver.
Made boolean parameters null safe.
Configured git to ignore eclipse artifacts since eclipse is maven
enabled.
Removed non-utf8 comment to avoid compilation errors.
Modified boolean get methods to be able to return null.
Structural changes to allow unit tests to run in maven.
Moved BaseTestCase from main tree to test tree.
Merge pull request #1 from pmendelson/master

Modifications to fix NPE and some unit tests.