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+package de.intevation.flys.client.client;
+
+import com.google.gwt.xml.client.Document;
+import com.google.gwt.xml.client.Node;
+
+
+/**
+ * A class that is used to handle the global configuration of this client. You
+ * can retrieve an instance of this class using the <code>getInstance</code>
+ * methods. <b>NOTE:</b> the configuration is initialized using {@link
+ * getInstance(Document)} the first time.
+ *
+ * @author <a href="mailto:ingo.weinzierl@intevation.de">Ingo Weinzierl</a>
+ */
+public class Config {
+
+    /** The instance of the configuration. */
+    protected static Config INSTANCE;
+
+    /** The xml document that contains the configuration options.*/
+    protected Document config;
+
+
+    /**
+     * Get an instance by using {@link getInstance(Document)} or {@link
+     * getInstance()}.
+     */
+    private Config(Document config) {
+        this.config = config;
+    }
+
+
+    /**
+     * Returns an instance of this class and initializes the configuration of
+     * this has not been done so far.
+     *
+     * @param config The client configuration.
+     *
+     * @return an instance of this Config class.
+     */
+    public static Config getInstance(Document config) {
+        if (INSTANCE == null) {
+            INSTANCE = new Config(config);
+        }
+
+        return INSTANCE;
+    }
+
+
+    /**
+     * Returns an instance of this class. If it has not been initialized with a
+     * valid configuration, null is returned.
+     *
+     * @return an instance of this class or null, if the Config has not been
+     * initialized using {@link getInstance(Document)} so far.
+     */
+    public static Config getInstance() {
+        return INSTANCE;
+    }
+
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the URL of the artifact server.
+     *
+     * @return the artifact server url.
+     */
+    public String getServerUrl() {
+        Node server = config.getElementsByTagName("server").item(0);
+        return server.getFirstChild().getNodeValue();
+    }
+}
+// vim:set ts=4 sw=4 si et sta sts=4 fenc=utf8 :