Metacat

    /**

     * Serialize a system metadata doc. Note: This needs to refactored out

     * of MetacatHandler and into a utitlity when stream i/o in Metacat is

     * evaluated.

     *

     * @param sysmeta  The system metadata object to be serialized

     * @return sysMetaOut  The system metadata XML document as a ByteArrayOutputStream

     * @throws JiBXException

     */

    private static ByteArrayOutputStream serializeSystemMetadata(SystemMetadata sysmeta) 

      throws JiBXException {

      IBindingFactory bfact;

      ByteArrayOutputStream sysmetaOut = null;

      try {

          bfact = BindingDirectory.getFactory(SystemMetadata.class);

          IMarshallingContext mctx = bfact.createMarshallingContext();

          sysmetaOut = new ByteArrayOutputStream();

          mctx.marshalDocument(sysmeta, "UTF-8", null, sysmetaOut);

      } catch (JiBXException jxe) {

        throw jxe;

      }

      return sysmetaOut;

    }

    /**

     * deserialize a system metadata doc. Note: This needs to refactored out

     * of MetacatHandler and into a utitlity when stream i/o in Metacat is

     * evaluated.

     * @param xml  The xml to be deserialized

     * @return sysmeta  The SystemMetadata object to be returned

     * @throws JiBXException

     */

    private static SystemMetadata deserializeSystemMetadata(InputStream xml) 

      throws JiBXException {

      try {

          IBindingFactory bfact = 

            BindingDirectory.getFactory(SystemMetadata.class);

          IUnmarshallingContext uctx = bfact.createUnmarshallingContext();

          SystemMetadata sysmeta = 

            (SystemMetadata) uctx.unmarshalDocument(xml, null);

          return sysmeta;

      } catch (JiBXException jxe) {

        throw jxe;

      }

    }