Metacat

Create database and shared directories for database management code and shared code respectively.

Merge 1.9 changes into Head

Removed the release ant token from all files in 'src'.

Merge DBConnection branch to head.

added precise location information (class.method) to each catch statement so that errors are more easily traced.

Added license terms to source code files, and cleaned up some javadoc
documentation in a few places.

Added "release" keyword to all metacat source files so that the release
number will be evident in software distributions.

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Merged in substantial changes to DBWriter and associated classes and to
the MetaCatServlet in order to accomodate the new UPDATE and DELETE
functions. The command line tools and the parameters for the
servlet have changed substantially.

cleaned up code for getting options from the properties file, made the database connection inthe MetaCatUtil class use the properties file for the conneciton info

documentation cleanup

minor modifications to fix problems introduced with AccessionNumber module

docid is String

added result-set filter to DBSimpleQuery to only return specified document type

rewrote DBSimpleQuery and associated classes to no longer use Oracle's hierarchichal query syntax -- now this should work with any JDBC compliant backend DB

improved query result handling

added XSL formatting to document display for metacat servlet

changed package name to edu.ucsb.nceas.metacat.*

changed database connection code, added utility class MetaCatUtil.java

started servlet to do XML query and return result set

documentation updates

documentation additions

Finished modifications to DBSimpleQuery.java to allow simple, free text searching on element and attribute content

added DBSimpleQuery.java to illustrate a simple query strategy over the XML set in the database