Metacat

change the method name getDateString() to getDateFunction()
return "now()::date" in the DBPostgresql implementation of that method

The Postgres implementation of the dbadapter package, still needs testing and
the getDate... method just returns the db function to return the date; to retreive the
current time is a second function so we may want to add a second method to return the
current time.

- changed to use the DBAdapter uniform interface for all apperance of "sysdate"
and uniqueid generation from sequence
MetaCatUtil:
- reads from metacat.properties the dbadapter class implemented the interface
and creates an instance of that class (in static public variable named dbAdapter) for use....

the abstract DBAdapter class and its Oracle implementation
for the new dbadapter package

Fixed bug in metacat where return doctypes were not being properly
back traced. Changed DBQuery.findDocuments() so that it no longer
takes a returndoc array, but instead retrieves the returndoc array
fromthe QUERYSpecification. The QuerySpecification was augmented...

Added ability to process multiple "returndoc" elements in
a pathquery document. Now, any query hit will be back traced to an
associated package if that package is listed in one of the
"returndoctype" elements.

Modifications that change the package handling behavior of metacat. Package
membership is now determined by an identifier being used as either the subject
or object in a triple. One can not request arbitrary returndocs -- only
those types that have package information embedded can be "returndoctype"...

fix in the return of the last revisionid on UPDATE instead of the previous one

fixed the problem with empy password authentication.
Ldap somehow allows DirContext to be created
when empty password is provided as in our case
instead of comlaining like with wrong password string.
So included a check for empty password in order to reject the login.

as John were testing Metacat on postgres,
he discovered that Connection needs more precise check
whether it is open because of db timing outs.
So used to be:
if ( conn null ) { get new connection from db; }
Now changed to:
if ( conn null || conn.isClosed() ) { get new connection from db; }...