Author: Prashant Sharma <prashant.s@imaginea.com>

Closes #2921 from ScrapCodes/build-changes-effective-pom and squashes the following commits:

8841491 [Prashant Sharma] Fixed broken maven build.
aa7b91d [Prashant Sharma] used an unused dep.
0300dac [Prashant Sharma] improved comment messages..
28f891e [Prashant Sharma] Added a useless dependency, so that we can shade it. And realized fake shading works for us.
553d96b [Prashant Sharma] Shaded some unused class of an unused dep, to generate effective pom(s)