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

 *

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 * 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

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

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import java.net.URL;

import java.net.URLConnection;

 * Class handling metacat scheme URLs by delegating connection requests

 * to the MetacatURLConnection class

 */

{

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

   *

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

   */

  {

    //...create and return a custom

    // URLConnection initialized

    // with a reference to the target

    // URL object...

    return new MetacatURLConnection(u);

  }

}