Updating dependencies + adding build and run scripts

.gitignore

@@ -1 +1,3 @@
-target/*
+target/*
+.idea
+basic-benchmark.iml

build.sh

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+mvn clean package shade:shade

pom.xml

@@ -5,16 +5,28 @@
     <artifactId>basic-benchmark</artifactId>
     <version>1.0</version>
 
+    <properties>
+        <activiti.version>5.17.0</activiti.version>
+        <spring.version>4.1.5.RELEASE</spring.version>
+    </properties>
+
 	<dependencies>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.activiti</groupId>
 			<artifactId>activiti-engine</artifactId>
-			<version>5.16.4</version>
+			<version>${activiti.version}</version>
+            <exclusions>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <!-- Got some issues with the shaded jar and email. Excluded it, as email is not used in benchmark -->
+                    <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>commons-email</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+            </exclusions>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.activiti</groupId>
 			<artifactId>activiti-spring</artifactId>
-			<version>5.16.4</version>
+			<version>${activiti.version}</version>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>com.h2database</groupId>
@@ -24,7 +36,7 @@
 		<dependency>
             <groupId>mysql</groupId>
             <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
-            <version>5.1.27</version>
+            <version>5.1.35</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>postgresql</groupId>
@@ -34,22 +46,22 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
             <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
-            <version>4.0.6.RELEASE</version>
+            <version>${spring.version}</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
             <artifactId>spring-jdbc</artifactId>
-            <version>4.0.6.RELEASE</version>
+            <version>${spring.version}</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
             <artifactId>spring-tx</artifactId>
-            <version>4.0.6.RELEASE</version>
+            <version>${spring.version}</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
             <artifactId>spring-orm</artifactId>
-            <version>4.0.6.RELEASE</version>
+            <version>${spring.version}</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
@@ -62,9 +74,9 @@
             <version>1.4</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
-            <groupId>c3p0</groupId>
+            <groupId>com.mchange</groupId>
             <artifactId>c3p0</artifactId>
-            <version>0.9.1.2</version>
+            <version>0.9.5.1</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.jolbox</groupId>
@@ -89,7 +101,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.fasterxml.uuid</groupId>
             <artifactId>java-uuid-generator</artifactId>
-            <version>3.1.3</version>
+            <version>3.1.4</version>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
@@ -109,8 +121,8 @@
 					<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
 					<version>2.3.2</version>
 					<configuration>
-						<source>1.6</source>
-						<target>1.6</target>
+						<source>1.8</source>
+						<target>1.8</target>
 						<showDeprecation>true</showDeprecation>
 						<showWarnings>true</showWarnings>
 						<optimize>true</optimize>

run.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+cd target
+mysql -u alfresco -palfresco -e "DROP SCHEMA benchmark"
+mysql -u alfresco -palfresco -e "CREATE SCHEMA benchmark DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_bin"
+java -Xms512M -Xmx2048M -DjdbcUrl=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/benchmark?characterEncoding=UTF-8 -DjdbcUsername=alfresco -DjdbcPassword=alfresco -DjdbcDriver=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver -Dhistory=none -Dconfig=spring -jar activiti-basic-benchmark.jar 500 8