updated obviously stale code and build configuration

Signed-off-by: Igor Fedorenko <igor@ifedorenko.com>
updated the tests to run with maven 3.0.x

use embedded derby to simplify setup. not sure why we used network
server in the past

read maven version and timestamp from build.properties

moved performance assertion to a separate pom.xml profile (haven't
tested it works yet)

Signed-off-by: Igor Fedorenko <igor@ifedorenko.com>