AC doesn't seem to be able to create monit cfgs

Commenting out the removal of the monit config files since AC doesn't seem
able to re-created them correctly upon restart.
Use openjdk-7 instead of oracle's jdk.
Remove gratuitous apt-get update
Fixed typo.
Removing dead code.
Fixed the release date
Adding missing flush function
Merge pull request #1464 from obino/restart-issues

Restart issues
Merge pull request #1470 from nlake44/release-date-fix

Fixed the release date
Made jdk-7 the default jvm.
Use #! and changed comment.
Merge pull request #1462 from obino/user-openjdk

Use openjdk
Merge pull request #1475 from nlake44/flush_missing

Adding missing flush function