Metacat

use the jaxb date parser for ISO 8601 formats. the numeric and date node values are now calculated after the document has been successfully inserted in the db so any sql exceptions do not prevent the raw node data from being saved.
http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2084

add support for temporal element query in pathquery
http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2084

always re-write web.xml in case geoserver has been redeployed
http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4307

include a default location for the Geoserver data directory (under the metcat deployment)

rework geoserver configuration:
-geoserver context is set to 'geoserver' by default, but can be reconfigured
-data directory is set in the geoserver web.xml file (we have a template, set the value accordingly, then overwrite the deployed version in the geoserver webapp)...

refactored the sessionService to use a correct singleton initialization scheme. Added true authentication to ResourceHandler.

Change RequestUtil forwardRequest() method to throw MetacatUtilException.

Change location of PropertyService to properties directory

Persist skin properties across installations

Change MetaCatVersion to MetacatVersion