JBERET-86 Implement *.xls ExcelEventItemReader with POI HSSF event API
add tests to ExcelReaderTest for ExcelEventItemReader with ranged reads
JBERET-87 Support configuration of serialization and deserialization features in Excel ItemReader and ItemWriter classes
add serializationFeatures property to ExcelStreamingWriterTest.xml; update IBM_unadjusted.xls and IBM_unadjusted.xlsx with the excel generated with WRITE_DATES_AS_TIMESTAMPS=false
add excel transitive dependencies to relevant pom.
1.1.0.Alpha1 release.
next is 1.1.0.Alpha2.
 JBERET-89 Support Java 8, replace the use of println with print in javascript; changed tck impl class JobExecutionWaiterImpl to print out job exit status to help debug.
Update README.md

to list batch application dependencies.
Update README.md
JBERET-58 Implement JDBC ItemWriter
add headerless property when reading IBM_unadjusted.txt CSV so as to properly identify the start of the data.
add more tests for JdbcItemWriter using List and Map beanType, in addition to the custom bean type.
JBERET-57 Implement JDBC ItemReader
add JdbcItemReader tests to test class JdbcReaderWriterTest; add ranged read (start and end property) and support for checkpoint info to JdbcItemReader.
add resultSetProperties to JdbcItemReader and related tests to JdbcReaderWriterTest.