Metacat

use UTF-8 encoding when getting bytes from the DB and converting them into a string.
http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2495

only call response.getWriter() when we are about to send text/xml to the client, otherwise we end of calling both getWriter() and getOutputStream() - resulting in an illegal state.

use detected XML encoding when reading/writing files
use UTF-8 as default when performing queries in the DB (assume DB is using UTF-8)
remove as many PrintWriters (uses system default character encoding only) as possible and construct OutputStreamWriters where explicit encoding can be given....

fixed a bug with trailing slashes

fix for paths with semi-colons or other 'reserved' characters in them for D1 rest services

added semi-colon id test

fixed bug where comparisons didn't work because of my change this morning

made this method more robust

fixed bug in new code

fixed bug where permission would get set to -1 for no good reason