Metacat

		// the code block below is from an older implementation

		/*  This block commented out because of the EcoGrid circular dependency.

         *  For now, query will not be supported until the circularity can be

         *  resolved, probably by moving the ecogrid query syntax transformers

         *  directly into the Metacat codebase.  MBJ 2010-02-03

        try {

            EcogridQueryParser parser = new EcogridQueryParser(request

                    .getReader());

            parser.parseXML();

            QueryType queryType = parser.getEcogridQuery();

            EcogridJavaToMetacatJavaQueryTransformer queryTransformer = 

                new EcogridJavaToMetacatJavaQueryTransformer();

            QuerySpecification metacatQuery = queryTransformer

                    .transform(queryType);

            DBQuery metacat = new DBQuery();

            boolean useXMLIndex = (new Boolean(PropertyService

                    .getProperty("database.usexmlindex"))).booleanValue();

            String xmlquery = "query"; // we don't care the query in resultset,

            // the query can be anything

            PrintWriter out = null; // we don't want metacat result, so set out null

            // parameter: queryspecification, user, group, usingIndexOrNot

            StringBuffer result = metacat.createResultDocument(xmlquery,

                    metacatQuery, out, username, groupNames, useXMLIndex);

            // create result set transfer       

            String saxparser = PropertyService.getProperty("xml.saxparser");

            MetacatResultsetParser metacatResultsetParser = new MetacatResultsetParser(

                    new StringReader(result.toString()), saxparser, queryType

                            .getNamespace().get_value());

            ResultsetType records = metacatResultsetParser.getEcogridResult();

            System.out

                    .println(EcogridResultsetTransformer.toXMLString(records));

            response.setContentType("text/xml");

            out = response.getWriter();

            out.print(EcogridResultsetTransformer.toXMLString(records));

        } catch (Exception e) {

            e.printStackTrace();

        }*/