Metacat

/**

 *  '$RCSfile$'

 *    Purpose: Handle Metacat URL connections

 *  Copyright: 2000 Regents of the University of California and the

 *             National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis

 *    Authors: Matt Jones

 *

 *   '$Author: jones $'

 *     '$Date: 2006-11-10 10:25:38 -0800 (Fri, 10 Nov 2006) $'

 * '$Revision: 3077 $'

 *

 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify

 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or

 * (at your option) any later version.

 *

 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

 * GNU General Public License for more details.

 *

 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software

 * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

 */

package edu.ucsb.nceas.protocols.metacat;

import java.net.URL;

import java.net.URLConnection;

/**

 * Class handling metacat scheme URLs by delegating connection requests

 * to the MetacatURLConnection class

 */

public class Handler extends java.net.URLStreamHandler

{

  /**

   * Open a new connection to the URL by delegating to the MetacatURLConnection

   *

   * @param u the URL to which a connection is requested

   */

  protected URLConnection openConnection(URL u)

  {

    //...create and return a custom 

    // URLConnection initialized

    // with a reference to the target 

    // URL object...

    return new MetacatURLConnection(u);

  }

}