Discover the external (backup) directory based on OS
Add release info property to provide a brief description of the release (release candidate info mostly)
Fix the deploy directory autodiscovery code so that it works regardless of where the metacat application directory is.
use secure server for replication - note that this is WITHOUT "https://" prepended
Remove commented lines
use context url to get cgi url
Change discoverTomcatDir to discoverDeployDir
FIx comments for getContextDir to reflect that we no long append webapps to the path
Differentiate between tomcat directory and deployment directory.
Move references to sql scripts into the WEB-INF directory.
Merge 1.9 changes into Head