Metacat

/**

 *  '$RCSfile$'

 *  Copyright: 2010 Regents of the University of California and the

 *             National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis

 *

 *   '$Author: jones $'

 *     '$Date: 2010-02-03 17:58:12 -0900 (Wed, 03 Feb 2010) $'

 * '$Revision: 5211 $'

 *

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

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 */

/**

 * General entry point for the Metacat server which is called from various 

 * mechanisms such as the standard MetacatServlet class and the various web

 * service servlets such as RestServlet class.  All application logic should be

 * encapsulated in this class, and the calling classes should only contain

 * parameter marshaling and demarshaling code, delegating all else to this

 * MetacatHandler instance.

 * @author Matthew Jones

 */