Upgraded APIs: Flink (0.8) and HBase (0.98.x) + profiles

I had to create an hadoop.core.version variable to manage the fact that cloudera has different versions for hadoop-core and hadoop-common..
Not sure what's the upper bound of regions in an HBase table is. Wouldn't it be better to use minNumSplits as the init value for the length of the ``splits`` list. It will automatically increase its size anyway ;-)