Metacat

1) Simplified database connection creation by adding new utility routine in MetaCatUtil that reads configuration information from the properties file.
2) Created MetaCatUtil.getOption() to retrieve options from properties file.
3) Unified SAX Parser creation by specifying parser driver in the properties file and dynamically loading it using the XMLReaderFactory interface....

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

updated javadoc documentation

updated javadoc documentation

integrated new structured query facility (DBQuery) into the servlet demo (MetaCatServlet)

removed debugging code

fixed QuerySpecification to produce SQL that does UNION or INTERSECT set operations for query group combinations

fixed QuerySpecification to produce SQL that does UNION or INTERSECT set operations for query group combinations

finsihed basic functionality for structured queries based on the DBQuery and QuerySpecification classes

added code to build an index of the paths through the DOM tree to each node in the tree as the node is being inserted