Change RequestUtil forwardRequest() method to throw MetacatUtilException.
Change location of PropertyService to properties directory
Change MetaCatVersion to MetacatVersion
Create database and shared directories for database management code and shared code respectively.
Add archival read funtionality (jar/kar/war files)
Beef up exception handling from file utilities. Move UtilException to MetacatUtilException to eliminate conflict with similar exception in utility package.
Allow for backup properties to be written to context based subdirectory of the external configuration directory. This allow multiple instances of metacat to be run side by side.
Only show the backup configuration screen if the system cannot discover a directory.
Class to support backup directory configuration