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..
The ``TableInputFormat`` object is serialized and shipped to the JM and TMs. So all member variables of the ``TableInputFormat`` class are serialized and shipped as well (if not declared transient). This should also work for a ``Configuration`` object. You set the ``Configuration`` as a member in the constructor, so this object should also be serialized and be available when ``configure()``, ``open()``, or any other method is called. 

Which ``Configuration`` object is empty, the member variable or the parameter passed to ``configure()``?