Metacat

added more replication/file locking functionality.

added more locking support and support for remote update of files.

added more locking functionality for replication

AccessControlList
- methods for parsing and loading acl file
- checkup method for permission for given principal on given resource
DBQuery
- checkup for READ permission using AccessControlList.hasPermission()
DocumentImpl
- using AccessControlList object to parse and load an acl file into xml_access table...

cleaned up code, added new static methods to MetacatReplication for handling static queries and getting URL content.

updated insert handling and added an action to request the time from a remote server.

created locking action in replication servlet and added semi-support to documentImpl to handle documents updatedee by replicatio

Modified stylesheets and server code to use a single "read" action instead
of the earlier "getdocument" and "getrelateddocument" actions. In the
process, developed and started to utilize a new suite of URL "protocol
handlers" that are in the package "edu.ucsb.nceas.protocols" and handle...

Fixed typo in create table syntax (added missing comma) for xml_access table.

Modified the build.xml file to support the new protocol handler classes,
which need to be built in a separate jar file bust it must be installed
as part of the tomcat servlet environment, not the web application. Now a
command of "ant protocol" will create the protocol.jar file, which must be...