VOL-2742 - ensure component list is empty not null

JSON marshalling doesn't encode a nil array as [], but instead
encodes it as "null". This patch makes the list default to an empty
array so that it marshals to "[]" instead of "null".

Change-Id: I3dbaf9e231e5a5a8cd4d4475f558a98b1c0da1f8
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index a970716..3ec1c88 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.0.15
+1.0.16-dev