Conflict detection in DeltaV using ServerSide Workspace

Hello,

I want to allow simultaneous editing of resources by multiple users with
WebDAV/DeltaV. For that, I use a ServerSide-Workspace for every user.
The user can "check out" a file in his private workspace and work on it.
After that, the user can "check in" all of his files with the DeltaV
activity feature. Now I am looking for a standard "serverside"-way to
detect conflicts when both users try to commit their changes on the same
file. Is there any standard way to detect these conflicts with
WebDAV/DeltaV on serverside?

My idea was (like in Subversion/mod_dav_svn), that the server keeps
track of the revisions, that are in the private workspace of the user,
to detect conflicts.=20

Here you can see a sequence diagram that illustrates the operations.=20

http://www.haifischmade.de/apache2-default/seqConWebDAV.jpg

User A and user B check out the file Foo. The server keeps track that
they both checked out version 1 of the file Foo. Now both users start to
edit the file in their own workspace. Then user A finishes editing and
checks in his workspace (ActivityUserA). Now the server increments the
version of file Foo up to 2. Now user B wants to check in his file, but
the server recognizes that UserB has changed the file based on version 1
and so the server rejects the check in.=20

Is this the right way?=20


Thank you for your Help.

Best regards

Martin


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Martin Jung
master student

DLR (German Aerospace Center),=20
Simulation and Software Technology
Linder Hoehe, 51147 Cologne, Germany

eMail: m.jung at dlr.de http://www.dlr.de/sc