Metacat

Changed the order of generating and getting Unique ID for
xml_nodes.nodeid and for uniqueid part of the accession#
because of SQl Server capabilities:
first let the db to generate unique id on insert (by db trigger and sequence or by IDENTITY key),
then get that unique id for further use by the application....

- new db adapter for MS SQL Server
- changed the getUniqueID(conn, tableName) to return the last generated by the db unique ID
instead of generating unique ID first by the appl and then supplied to the insert,
because SQL Server doesn't have capabilities
unique ID to be generated on the client and then supplied to the insert.

change the call from getDateFunction() to getDateTimeFunction()

changed the getDate method to getDateTime and changed the return
string in the postgresql implementation to "now()" from now()::date

change the call from getDateString() to getDateFunction()

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...