ect. The object returned for a "multipart" content is always a
 Multipart subclass. For content-types that are  unknown to the
 DataHandler system, an input stream is returned as the content <p>

 This is a convenience method that just invokes the DataHandler's
 getContent() method</div>
<dl>
<dt><span class="returnLabel">Returns:</span></dt>
<dd>Object</dd>
<dt><span class="throwsLabel">Throws:</span></dt>
<dd><code>java.io.IOException</code> - this is typically thrown by the 
                        DataH