Metacat

Updated README file for the beta2 release. Added list of known issues,
which will need to be edited for the final release.

fixed the compilation bug about the change of group parameter in DocumentImpl.write()

changed accessdoctype=-//NCEAS//eml-access-2.0//EN
b' AccessControlList is changed to use eml-access-2.0.dtd already

added support for multiple group membership

Changed the constructors so that the nodeRecordList is automatically
retrieved by the DocumentImpl(Connection,String) constructor. this
restores its earlier behavior, but the implementation is totally
done by DocumentImpl(Connection,String,boolean).

Added fix to DocumentImpl that showed problems when the DocumentImpl(conn)
constructor was called. Now there is a new constructor:
DocumentImpl(Connection, String, boolean)
where the boolean value is used to determine if the nodeset should be
read a t the time the cosntructor is called. if false, then...

Completely removed the socket-server feature that used to provide
file upload. It is now replaced by multipart/form-data over http.

Modified Metacat to support large data file uploads. This is accomplished
by supporting a new content type for data sent to metacat:
multipart/form-data
which allows multiple files to be sent in a standard MIME format. The
MetacatServlet.handleGetOrPost() method now checks the incoming content...

Simplified ReplicationHandler:
It is run now in the same thread started from DBSAXHandler;
thus the same connection opened in that thread is used,
i.e. no need for new connection and no complains as "Connection is closed" in ReplicationHandler;
"Connection is closed" error happens when in the current thread there are try to use connection opened in another thread,...

tests made on Oracle and SQL Server.