SPARK-1830 Deploy failover, Make Persistence engine and LeaderAgent Pluggable

Author: Prashant Sharma <prashant.s@imaginea.com>

Closes #771 from ScrapCodes/deploy-failover-pluggable and squashes the following commits:

29ba440 [Prashant Sharma] fixed a compilation error
fef35ec [Prashant Sharma] Code review
57ee6f0 [Prashant Sharma] SPARK-1830 Deploy failover, Make Persistence engine and LeaderAgent Pluggable.