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..
What exactly do you mean by first time and next times?
``configure()`` is invoked once in the JobManager to compute the input splits. Then the class is serialized and shipped to all TaskManagers (TM). In each TM thread, the ``configure()`` method is called just once, before ``open()`` is called for each processed InputSplit.