Updates for External Files, Menus, and custom fields

[givemeahigh5]

Patches to better serve multi-OS delivery and app customization:

• Updated bundling plugins
• Updated file path resolution in Configuration and MainForm, including Windows/Mac distinction and utilizing ApplicationPath() instead of getApplcationPath()
• Modified processing of Saved Taxa Sets to match other external files/directories
• Updated HelpPopup and alert dialogs to allow custom text on welcome dialog, plus custom icon and application name to be set by external file
• Removed functionality to install a new database

[ChristianMurphy]

Thanks for your pull request!

Code generally looks good.
I left a few questions and comments.

Some general orders of business for contributing:

1. Could you sign the Apereo ICLA? https://www.apereo.org/licensing/agreements
2. Could you report this as a feature request on this portlet's issue tracker? https://issues.jasig.org/browse/IQ
3. Could you include a summary of the change in the pull request?
4. optional Screenshots of changes that affect the appearance of the portlet are helpful
5. optional This looks like a significant change, the uPortal dev group may be interested https://groups.google.com/a/apereo.org/forum/#!forum/uportal-dev

[ChristianMurphy]

could the commented out JOptionPane thoughout the code be removed?

[ChristianMurphy]

git automatically tracks which user most recently edited a given line of code.

[ChristianMurphy]

jumping to version 2 before version 1 is tagged?

[ChristianMurphy]

@bjagg should the version be 1.0.0 to fit the major.minor.patch format of semver?

[bjagg]

Following semantic versioning, this is likely 1.0.1 (if only patches) or 1.1.0 if there are new features. Since it looks compatible with previous versions, it really does not look like a 2.0 release.

Thanks Christian for the review!

[apetro]

Since there's been no 1.0.0 release, I think the <version> shouldn't increment at all. Start observing Semantic Versioning after 1.0.0. Before then it's just a wild west snapshot.

[apetro]

I verify a name matching @givemeahigh5 's name appears among the names of people who have signed ICLAs.

[apetro]

I grabbed the branch behind this pull request, built and ran locally. The resulting onejar works no worse for me than does status quo Jasig/master. ~~~In both cases all I get is the initial dialog to choose an existing or create a new user, and then after that, no further dialogs or windows, just nothing.~~~

EDIT: @BKKirchoff kindly lent me some quiz content for testing. I successfully ran the onejar from this branch against that data. Passes smoke test. I can't say I exercised all the specific changes in this changeset, but spot checking the application overall it worked great.

[givemeahigh5]

Additional assets, including a database and graphics, are needed locally to run the app -- without them nothing shows up after the login screen. There are multiple versions (i.e. plants, herpetology) managed separately and not included here. @apetro it sounds like maybe you lacked these. I can run both Jasig/master and my local branch without incident, though the versioning and comment issues above still need to be addressed.

[ChristianMurphy]

LGTM, Thanks @givemeahigh5!