small change
replaced merge with persists to fix problem of getting newly created id
from DB

Change-Id: I31be90a319b6529de5f976094e8045a2d5ce9ebb
Eclipse project settings to use JDK 1.7
Maven pom change sot use versions defined in properties and testing been removed
added sql code for creation authorities table
resolved some of the Java compiler warnings
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into Core-ACL

Conflicts:
	.classpath
	pom.xml