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Major Description
The class QueryServlet uses the private method getQuery() to parse the HTTP request and create an XMLQuery object to process.
PDS has a need to provide its own parsing of the HTTP request parameters (in order to enable an easier syntax than the current DIS-style query syntax). This can be achieved by providing a subclass of QueryServlet that implements its own version of getQuery().
Therefore, it is suggested that we change the visibility of that method from "private" to "protected". This change should have no ill effects on any of the software using the QueryServlet class.