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Changes made for release 1.5

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See the file "docs/user/metacatinstall.html" for detailed instructions.
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Release Notes for 1.5.0:
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This release comes with performace improvement, user interface enhancements
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and bug fixes. Below is the list of bug fixes and performance improvements. 
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Bug Fixes:
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* Modify property values of harvester registration servlets to match the
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  servlet-mapping URL values in web.xml. The old values used the servlet
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  class names. This worked in Tomcat 4 but seems to break in Tomcat 5 on
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  Windows. The new values use the servlet-mapping URL values. This should
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  work in both Tomcat 4 and Tomcat 5. (Bug 162)
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* Re-implement logic to prune old log entries from the HARVEST_LOG and
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  HARVEST_DETAIL_LOG tables. The old logic caused integrity constraint
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  violations in the database because it tried to delete parent records from
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  HARVEST_LOG prior to deleting child records from
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  HARVEST_DETAIL_LOG. (Bug 162)
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* In data registry, minor bugs fixed like the error page shows the link back
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  to the form when error page was generated because of a document read
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  request from search results page,  the successful delete button leading
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  to a blank screen and the old ACL overwritten by the registry.
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  (Bugs 1307, 1310, 1322, 1344, 1551)
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* Changed the code to support insertion of following characters: ', `,
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  charcters in the Numeric Character Reference format (&#xyz;) and
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  characters like µ. Characters like µ will be converted to and stored in
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  Numeric Character Reference format(&#xyz;). They will also be returned
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  in Numeric Character Reference and it is upto the client to convert them
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  and display them accordingly in the application. Partial fix provided by
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  Johnoel Ancheta. (Bug 1538,1711)
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* Spatial search failed on Oracle because of invalid entries made by
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  some documents in the nodedata column of xml_nodes for paths involving
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  'eastBoundingCoordinate', 'westBoundingCoordinate',
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  'northBoundingCoordinate', 'southBoundingCoordinate'. A new column
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  nodedatanumerical was added to xml_nodes table such that all the numerical
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  nodedata is stored in this column and this column is now used for spatial
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  search. (Bug 1703, 1718)
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* In the default skin, clicking on the keywords on the home page did not
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  result is a search being done. Fix provided by Owen Jones. (Bug 1768)
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* Metacat generated a success message even when a document which didnt
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  exsist was requested for deletion. This has been fixed. (Bug 1850)
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* "packagetype" in xml-relation table was entered as eml200 namespace when
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  an eml201 document was inserted. This is fixed now so that "packagetype"
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  in xml-relation table points to eml201 namespace. (Bug 1979)
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* System_id in xml_catalog pointed to http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/knb/
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  earlier. Fixed such that it points to the locally installed metacat url. 
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  (Bug 1986)
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* Changes to the Query subsystem fix bugs that prevented attributes from 
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  being expressed solely in the xpath query statement and the returnfield 
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  values. For instance, a query URL may now include search strings like 
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  '@packageId=sbclter%25' and return strings like 'returnfield=@packageId'.
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  Previously, the attribute had to be appended to an element: 
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  '/eml/@packageId=sbclter%25'. These fixes change DBQuery.java, 
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  QuerySpecification.java, and QueryTerm.java (Bug 2052)
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* Search query failed in case of Oracle if number of documents in the result
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  were more than 1000. This has been fixed. (Bug 2000)
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* Removed any occurence of enum which is now a keyword in Java 1.5
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Enhancements:
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* Major improvements done in user interface for the data registeries and
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  various other skins. Improvements done based on suggestions from Mark
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  Stromberg, Laura Downey and others. Improvements also done in resultset.xsl,
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  the default skin and ldap templates. (Bug 1948)
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* Coded added such that administrator can delete documents irrespective of
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  who the document belongs to.
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* Performance impovement done in searching of datasets. A part of the search
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  time was taken up because of generation of resultset after the search had be
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  done. So this was the sequence of events in earlier metacat
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  1) Search for the given text
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  2) A list of docids generated
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  3) For each of the docids
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     3a) Use xml_index and xml_nodes table to generate the string descibing
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         the document including the returnfields requested in the search
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  4) Add all the strings from step 3a to send back the resultant document.                                                                 Here a decent amount of time was being taken by step 3a. The algorithm is
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  now modified by addition of two tables xml_queryresult and xml_returnfields
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  and a user defined parameter xml_returnfield_count. The new algorithm works
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  as follows
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  1) Search for the given text
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  2) A list of docids generated
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  3) For the given set of return fields generate a unique string and check
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     if that string exists in xml_returnfields
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     3a) If string does not exist in xml_returnfield, then enter a new
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         record usage_count as 1 and returnfield_string as the unique string
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         generated above.
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     3b) Else if the string exists, increment usage_count
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  4) Given the docids from step 2 and the id of the returnfield record from
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     step 3, query for any docids that already exist in xml_queryresult.
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     For the docids that do exist, get the queryresult_string.
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  5) For rest of the docids from step2 which were not found in step 4, do
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     the following for each of the documents:
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     5a) Use xml_index and xml_nodes table to generate the string descibing
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         the document including the returnfields requested in the search
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     5b) If usage_count of the record from step is more than
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         xml_returnfield_count set in metacat.properties, then store the
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         string in xml_queryresult as a record which has the returnfield_id
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         representing the set of returnfields, docid representing the
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         document and the string as queryresult_string.
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  6) Add all the strings from step 4 and step 5a to send back the resultant
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     document
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  So the results from step 3a in previous algorithm are effectively cached
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  and hence same computation is not done again and again for each search.
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  When a document is deleted, all the entries for that document in
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  xml_queryresult table are also deleted. When a document is updated, all
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  the entries for that document in xml_queryresult table are deleted. This
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  works fine because those entries will be generated and cached again the
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  next time the document is part of a search is requested.
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* Performance impovement done for % search.
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* Following new functions added to metacat client API: a method to set access
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  on an xml document and a method to get newest version for a given document.
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* Implement a new HarvesterServlet for running Harvester as a servlet. This
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  eliminates the need to run Harvester in a terminal window. By default, the
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  HarvesterServlet is commented out in lib/web.xml.tomcat(3,4,5). The user
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  documentation will be modified to instruct Harvester administrators to
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  uncomment the HarvesterServlet entry.
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* Minor enhancement to support multiple email addresses for harvester
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  administrator and site contact. Each address is separated by a comma or
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  semicolon.
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* Increase number of rows in Harvest List Editor from 300 to 1200.
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* Changed default maxHarvests value to 0. Added logic to ignore maxHarvests
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  value when it is set to 0 or a negative number. This allows Harvester to
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  run indefinitely without shutting down after reaching a maximum number of
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  harvests. The previous default value of 30 would cause Harvester to
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  terminate after 30 harvests.
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Details of all changes can be found in the bug database here:
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http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/buglist.cgi?product=Metacat&target_milestone=1.5
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Release Notes for 1.4.0:
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