Ah, I should have mentioned that the branch I pasted above is based on my task-19404 branch, so we should be sure that that one is okay, too, before merging to master.
the first tiny test for verifying that test and coverage tasks work
Agreed.
Should there be a bin directory added to the standard file structure in order to have a place for scripts?
Well, we could move scripts to such a directory, but I could also see us making those changes when we're changing the way ExoneraTor is executed. Ideally, we'd do this via sudo service exonerator start|stop|status|..., and that would include both the hourly updater and the (then Jetty-based) servlet.
I could take over the open topics in order to familiarize myself with exonerator?
Please find another commit on the above branch that replaces the legacy commons lang version (catering to java 1.2) by lang3 (designed for Java 7 and up).