Hi Thomas
Firstly - thank you very much for these issues and for suggested fixes.
Both is committed into trunk already. I can't however promise any Maven release, is that a problem?
I'd suggest using 3.0.0-SNAPSHOT built from trunk. 3.0 has a few interface changes, it requires JDK 1.6, JDBC 3 is dropped (4 stays) but otherwise there should be no serious troubles.
If, only if I could EASILY release on Maven Central, there would be 3.0 out ages ago...
Tell me what is your setup and if you can easily check the trunk version.
Thanks
Virgo