Java and Microsoft Visual Source Safe

Hi,
We have content in text files stored checked in to Visual Source Safe.
I want to provide a web interface that allows users to update this content.
To do so I will need to programmatically check in/check out files from VSS.
Has anybody implemented a similar system in Java? ideas where to start?
Note: I am aware that Eclipse has a plugin for VSS so this must be possible
Any help much appreciated.
Thanks

A similar situation like what I had a few weeks before.
We will have an internal box that a user goes to and
checks out a file via a web interface. I would have
thought that only that box requires any kind of VSS
plug in.
Assuming i am stuck with VSS, then I would have hoped
to be able to find an API that enables me to supply
details of the VSS ini to establish a connection and
then call simple methods like checkin() etc. Seems
like its going to be a lot more complicated than that.SourceAnyWhere by Dynamsoft offers a pure Java client for VSS (both GUI client version and command line client version provided ). Have a look at http://www.dynamsoft.com/products/saw_overview.aspx
It also provides a Java SDK for VSS ( I had not try this). I think the Java client would have solved the problem.
HTH.
Regards,
Reggy

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