Properly initialize the servlet context when starting alternate servlets, which makes sure that the configuration files have been loaded and config properties are available.
Change location of PropertyService to properties directory
Create database and shared directories for database management code and shared code respectively.
Get the metacat url from the SystemUtil.
Remove the configuration directory from the PropertyService constructor
Create PropertyService using log directory instead of servlet context.
Merge 1.9 changes into Head
Add qformat parameter in call to executeAdvancedSearch() method.
Refactor code to get the relative paths of the resultset XSL and search results JSP from the MetacatHelper class rather than hard-coded.
Eliminate hard-coding of the knb context from the advanced search code. Advanced search servlet determines the metacat context name by reading the metacat.properties file at servlet initialization.
Bug #2207: Implementation of the Metacat Advanced Search engine.