[maven-release-plugin] prepare release slf4j-test-1.1.0
[maven-release-plugin] prepare for next development iteration
Working on removing additional library dependencies and using what is
provided in Java 8.  Removed dependency on joda-time
Removed some of the Guava dependencies and tried to remove some lidalia
ones as well, preferring the Java 8 libraries to those libraries.
Updated JUnit tests to use latest versions and work with the Java 8
updated code.
Merge branch '1.1-RELEASE'

Merging in JDK 8 updates done at Release 1.1 to the master branch.

Conflicts:
	pom.xml