Re: Question on direct (non-file) CVS access

Unfortunately, this can not be easily done. The java.io.File class is 
used extensively in the JavaCVS library. There's no abstraction (like in 
NetBeans' filesystems where we have FileObject abstraction).

Therefore one would have to create a filesystem layer in JavaCVS (or use 
org.openide.filesystems.*) first, then you would be able to implement a 
special filesystem, that would be mapped to the database.

Regards,
Martin

J Z wrote:

>Hi Murray,
>
>I believe the answer is no, however, I have only
>implemented one application with this package.  As far
>as I know, javacvs will always create a parallel (cvs)
>file structure, because it uses it for many purposes.
>
>It allows various (different) clients to access the
>same cvs structure primarily... but if all you need to
>do is commit a file you have in memory, you'd have to
>do the additional steps you described... write it to
>the proper place and commit it.
>
>Hope it helps and I hope I'm wrong for you!
>
>John
>
>
>--- Murray Altheim <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>Hi,
>>
>>Pardon me if this is either a dumb question or one
>>asked before,
>>but I searched the archives and was unable to locate
>>an answer.
>>
>>I've been playing with JavaCVS for a few days now
>>and just joined
>>the mailing list. I'm trying to implement CVS
>>support in a Java
>>UI application that uses the Apache Xindice database
>>to store XML
>>files. I'd like to be able to behind-the-scenes
>>provide CVS support
>>for modifications to files in the XML DB repository,
>>which has a
>>1 level deep (Documents stored in Collections)
>>structure.
>>
>>Question is: is there a way to support version
>>control for the
>>database without writing files out to disk? In
>>trying to work
>>through JavaCVS, my approach has been to create a
>>mirror set of
>>directories for the DB Collections, then as the user
>>adds new
>>Documents (generally, XML/DOM Documents), each of
>>these is then
>>serialized to a File within its appropriate
>>directory, and the
>>CVS actions are performing on the serialized file.
>>What I'd like
>>to do is avoid writing Files and just work directly
>>with CVS,
>>such that an add would basically be:
>>
>>    serialized content  -->  CVS
>>
>>without the intervening writing to File.
>>
>>Conversely, is there way to import files from CVS
>>directly into
>>the application without having CVS write them as
>>Files and then
>>importing them?
>>
>>Is there a way to do this kind of thing with
>>JavaCVS?
>>
>>Thanks very much!
>>
>>Murray
>>
>>
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>>Murray Altheim                   
>>http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/murray/
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