Metacat

The registry currently relies on a .lastid file residing within the skin folder for each skin in use. This file is used to keep track of the last accession number used for insertion, but should be removed as it causes configuration issues: it sometimes must be manually seeded to be correct, it must be writable by the apache user, and it isn't thread-safe.

To replace the file, the server should always be queried through getLastDocid (getLastId in the Perl bindings) for the highest accession number within a given scope, and only use this canonical resource.