merge dev_5_0 -D org -I include -E exclude: PR 856 (Initial version of bfCheckJavaMemory)
merge dev_5_0 -D org -I include -E exclude: PR 874 (SDT: read each data block into a separate series (rebased onto dev_5_0))
merge dev_5_0 -D org -I include -E exclude: PR 880 (Update ome_tools.jar to include almost everything that loci_tools.jar does)