* bump scala to 2.12 which requires java 8 and also newer flink and akka
* put scala version in artifactId
* fix appveyor
* fix for scaladoc issue that looks like https://github.com/scala/bug/issues/10509
* fix ci_build
* update versions in generate_pom.py
* fix generate_pom.py
* apache does not have a download for spark 2.4.3 distro using scala 2.12 yet, so for now i use a tgz i put on s3
* Upload spark-2.4.3-bin-scala2.12-hadoop2.7.tgz to our own S3
* Update Dockerfile.jvm_cross
* Update Dockerfile.jvm_cross
* add back train method but mark as deprecated
* add back train method but mark as deprecated
* fix scalastyle error
* fix scalastyle error
* maven central release
* add back train method but mark as deprecated
* add back train method but mark as deprecated
* fix scalastyle error
* fix scalastyle error
* add back libsvm notes
* bump up to scala 2.11
* framework of data frame integration
* test consistency between RDD and DataFrame
* order preservation
* test order preservation
* example code and fix makefile
* improve type checking
* improve APIs
* user docs
* work around travis CI's limitation on log length
* adjust test structure
* integrate with Spark -1 .x
* spark 2.x integration
* remove spark 1.x implementation but provide instructions on how to downgrade