Upgraded APIs: Flink (0.8) and HBase (0.98.x) + profiles

I had to create an hadoop.core.version variable to manage the fact that cloudera has different versions for hadoop-core and hadoop-common..
The linux file permissions.
So github says in the changed file view that the permissions of the file were changed from 644 to 755 (it says "100644 → 100755" in the box's header)