GEOMESA-203 Upgrade joda-time to version 2.3

This is to streamline the IP review by the Eclipse Foundation.
It includes upgrading joda-convert to 1.6, the most recent.
GEOMESA-135 Convert ehCache to Guava cache

Removed ehCache from the DeDuplicatingIterator, as well as references to ehCache in the pom files, and replaced with Guava cache.
Removed jta dependency, fixed cache logic, and added 2 small tests
GEOMESA-206 Update and improve README.md
GEOMESA-207 Remove the geomesa-dist sub-project and move the manual to geomesa.github.io

This is the first half:  Removing the geomesa-dist sub-project
from the GeoMesa build.
GEOMESA-208 getSchema(featureTypeName) should return NULL when the feature type name does not exist

Iff the feature type cannot be found by name -- here defined as whether
the attributes list can be fetched -- then the `getSchema` call should
return null.  This commit adds a pair of unit tests.
GEOMESA-207 Log configs are no longer symlinks
GEOMESA-204 Abstract geometric predicate handling and apply it to attribute queries

* Added unit tests which show attribute equals and like queries to the TestFilters.
* Changed the AIFI to use an ECQL filter rather than a polygon for topological comparisons.
* Threaded additional explainQuery 'output' calls in the IndexQueryPlanner.
GEOMESA-217 ID partitioning should hash an array of attributes rather than building a string

Hash array of attributes rather than a string built from attributes
GEOMESA-216 AvroSimpleFeature should cache converters for performance

Converters are cached in the companion object.
GEOMESA-218 fixing batch writer flush on delete of features
Merge branch 'accumulo1.5.x/1.x' into fcr_batchmultiscanner

Conflicts:
	geomesa-core/src/main/scala/geomesa/core/index/IndexQueryPlanner.scala
Compile fixes