not sure why this did not come up earlier when I stared upgrading some of the jar dependencies, but I've been having problems deploying Metacat because of a xerces error. upgrading to 2.7.1 fixed it - thinking the xml-apis and xerces jars need to be somewhat in lockstep with each other.
minor upgrade to commons-logging (1.0.3->1.0.4)
upgrade commons-collections (3.2) and commons-lang (2.5) - avoid conflicts with semtools plugin that requires these newer jars.
upgrade the log4j jar - reduces the duplicate jars to wade though in the build process
do not use the jdk logging - this was being used with the datamanager for some reason (but not the rest of metacat).we use log4j...
switch to updated sanparks boundaries file
replace older sanparks boundaries shapefile with updated version (includes mokala)
use Arial for Park_Name labels on geoserver/mapbuilder rendering
include SANParks boundary layer in the geoserver for sanparks skin
Initial architecture for dynamically generating SLD/OGC:Filter documents to control which docids get shown on the map. The sldfactory servlet is in place to handle this but is not fully functional since there is currently no way to quickly and dynamically generate a list of allowable docids with a level of performance acceptable for real-time web mapping.
Improved data point styling. Thickened and smoothed the white outline by stacking two fill rules rather than one fill plus stroke.
Changed SLD wizard paths to relative instead of assuming context name was geoserver. Patch has been submitted to geoserver dev team.
removed old geoserver/geotools jars that were causing some trouble
upgrade to geoserver 1.4rc5
Set configured to false initially. Include notification in configure process that geoserver password needs to be changed plus instructions on how to do so
restored original styles to knp-specific layers
Trimmed down initial shapefiles. They must exist in order to start geoserver properly but there's no need for them to have actual data, just a dummy feature with the proper geometry type (multipoint, multipolygon).
Removed most (all?) of the deprecated spatial metacat code from head
Minor cartographic fixes to geoserver SLDs
initial import of spatial libs, try2