Java Client Program to explore CVS Repository

Question

Hi Friends :
My module, use CVS as repository to which bunch of XMLs files gets committed by a particular process. Later these XMLs are collected and send to another location by an EOD process.
I need to write a java client, to explore CVS file folder structure to see what is in the CVS before EOD process starts. I do got one reference from NetBeans Stack - org-netbeans-lib-cvsclient.jar - but faces limitations on them.
Has any one here, has got any suggestion / alternate approach to make.
Regards
Abhilash

Answer 1

Imagine some friend replied to me - "Oh yes - I have applied this - XYZ jar in my project for same ops.. ' - this would have been booster for any one experimenting with ...That is what expected rather than de-route to Google Path .. My point is, that a Google search will probably lead you to articles, blogs, and posts, on this forum or on others, from people that are applying succesfully XYZ.jar for a similar purpose. This forum, with all due respect to its venerable members, and despite my obvious bias and sympathy for some of them, are no more authoritative than a few other technical places on the Internet.
And if no such existing resource andwser your needs, you'll be more welcome if you state that "you have read XYZ's doc, read this post (link), and this one (other link), and evaluated this other lib, and none of them seems to fulfills my requirements X, Y, and Z"
I have noticed your similar reply for the same query in another postAh, you mean in this topic which you resurrected (wink to the moderators :o): {message:id=9817389}?
Well note that it was not me who pushed this other poor soul to a search engine, so this is not just me getting old, wrinkled and bitter, merely a general consensus here that questions such as "Looking for a way to..." should demonstrate some effort on the part of the questioner before asking others. In the case of such an request where obviously several APIs are easily found, you could read the introduction chapter of the respective docs, to get an idea of the strength and weaknesses, or do a few more searches to find posts related to these APIs on programming forums.
but I feel - any query can give different dimensions of issuesI don't understand :o(
Idea of using CVS in my java module for storing files for processing came to my attention (...) remotely related to my requirement (...) It triggered me using CVS (...) would give me added advantagesIn other words, using CVS is not a requirement, it's a technical decision, after analyzing the requirements and the other factors that can drive the choice (licence cost, knowledge within the team, maintenability,...)?
Unless history, branching, and diffing, are requirements of your application, I seriously question using CVS as only a shared repository of data, but let's assume you have done this analysis and indeed come to the right conclusion.
So am patient enough to get an valuable guidance / lead on same subject - else I will continue with POC !!
Good Luck Oh you mean, with my age, wrinkles, and bitterness? Thanks ;)
I didn't mean to offend you, and wish you good luck getting help, I just pointed out that you will have more chance of getting help if you:
1) give more details about which "limitations" are hampering your work:
2) demonstrate more effort of evaluating alternative solutions
For example it is not clear to me if you're looking for a workaround with your current library, or if you 're looking for alternative libraries.
J.
Edited by: jduprez on Aug 24, 2011 10:18 PM