Releasing Java 9 compatible version

This is the first Java 9 compatible version

DO NOT use any previous release with Java 9 as it will blow up.

• string.getChars used to throw ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException (tested on JDK 6-8) but now it throws StringIndexOutOfBoundsException. This version was updated to catch IndexOutOfBoundsException instead so it can work with all JDKs (tested from 6 to 9).

• SimpleDateFormat - Changes in the locales "broke" previously working date formats. If the default locale is "en_AU" then the following won't work with JDK 9: new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MMM-dd").parse("2015-DEC-25")

Classes with annotations for dates now allow users to provide a locale. For example:

    @Parsed
    @Format(formats = "dd-MMM-yyyy", options = "locale=en_US_WIN")
    private Date myDate;

    //if you are in Australia, MMM will translate to the abbreviated format followed by period, 
    //i.e. "October"  becomes "Oct.". The formatter won't work to parse dates such as "2015-Oct-20"
    //Use "locale=en" to make it behave as it always did in Java 8 or earlier.
    @Parsed
    @Format(formats = "dd-MMM-yyyy", options = "locale=en")
    private Date australianDay;

Also fixed a bug on the TrimConversion introduced in version 2.5.5 - it would break processing blank or empty strings.