Uses Maven as the project management and build tool.
Make JavaEE Spec. dependency be inhereted from business/pom.xml
Restructured layout + Java EE comformance and deployment fixes
Use Spring instead of Java EE for client application
Remove EAR subproject
Updated security and transactions for services
update client context
Improved Spring support in client
Fix integration with Spring
Fix bug in Attendance.close method
Small build improvements
Make exec:java a standalone goal
Add authentication view to the 4th migration
Update README.md
Make docs build platform independent
Makes root project release the distribution file + sets UTF-8 as the file encoding for projects
Remove obsolete code from docs/build.xml
Fix root distribution assembly descriptor
Update documentation
Prepare v3.0.0-RC4 for release