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..
Hi,

can you try to replace line 86 in `GenericTypeInfo` by 

`return new KryoSerializer<T>(this.typeClass);`

and check if that would solve the problem?

We want to switch from Avro to Kryo for serialization of generic objects in the future anyways, but are currently waiting for some improvements that would make Kryo better perform.