Make sure the logback appender sends the entire exception message to …

…the gelf server.

Package source and javadocs to satisfy Maven Central requirements

Bump the version of ruby to use the MRI

Improve the mechanism for deriving the message id so that even when a…

… message is sent in the same nano-second, the message will have a unique identifier.

Fix the version header

Handle the scenario where null messages are passed down from external…

… logging frameworks

Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/realityforge/gelf4j

Improve the testing to ensure delivery across a socket occurs

Add in records of some changes

Initiate a connection with forwarder and handle error scenarios corre…

…ctly