Issue 59 ; updating license date range to include 2009

Issue 59 ; copyright start year should be 1998 to match oldest files

Issue 59 ; updating license header and adding one where missing

Issue 29 ; Added eclipse formatter configuration, tweaked checkstyle configuration to match, and ran eclipse formatter on the java source in core. Reduced checkstyle errors from 14037 to 2502. Note this commit contains formatting-related changes only, no code changes.

issue#51 aligned package and class names of the tests with the classes under test.

Issue 47; replaced println to stdout/stderr in unit tests with assertNotNull

issue#44 subdirectory and artifact rename