Adjust our catalog connections to append the required catalog connection
properties. Fix unit tests.

Bump library versions:
Guava 14.0 -> 14.0.1 (14.0 was wrongly based on rc2 rather than rc3)
slf4j 1.6.1 -> 1.7.7 (highly recommended performance update in 1.7.5)
jdeb 1.0.1 -> 1.3