This change covers three points:
1. move the generation of UUIDs out of parsers
2. fixes a bug in the metadata lock when performing load operations
3. the external data scan operator is again a leaf operator
4. made sure the startup call doesn't return until the servers are ready to receive requests
Merged master into branch for the second time.

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commit da929c990249fe7f0699417fd7f7ea34908355af
Author: Abdullah Alamoudi <bamousaa@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri Jan 16 11:51:14 2015 +0300

    Moved generation of UUIDs out of parsers

Change-Id: I32437493cf48c79417f4280e9d8a85cfb1559b62
Reviewed-on: http://fulliautomatix.ics.uci.edu:8443/205
Tested-by: Jenkins <jenkins@fulliautomatix.ics.uci.edu>
Reviewed-by: Ian Maxon <imaxon@uci.edu>
Reviewed-by: Taewoo Kim <wangsaeu@gmail.com>
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