class Fedora::Repository

or not (defaults to +false+).
The +refresh+ parameter toggles whether or not the connection is refreshed at every request
Low level access to the remote fedora server

def connection(refresh = false)
  if refresh || @connection.nil?
    @connection = Fedora::Connection.new(@fedora_url, Fedora::XmlFormat, @surrogate)
  end
  @connection
end