Integrating Java with CVS

[Mark Schnitzius]

I'm planning a Java tool that handles some calls to CVS.

How do software tools "typically" integrate with CVS? Is it just a
matter of executing the cvs command (say, via Runtime.exec()) and then
capturing and parsing the output? Or is there a neater way of
integrating, say with some sort of API?


--Mark

 

[John C. Bollinger]

I'm planning a Java tool that handles some calls to CVS.

How do software tools "typically" integrate with CVS? Is it just a
matter of executing the cvs command (say, via Runtime.exec()) and then
capturing and parsing the output? Or is there a neater way of
integrating, say with some sort of API?

I have code that does the former. It works. The alternative is to
write or borrow Java code that speaks one or more of CVS' protocols.
There was at one time a Java GUI for CVS (named JCVS) that did the
latter; it may still be around somewhere.

 

[Ross Bamford]

I'm planning a Java tool that handles some calls to CVS.

How do software tools "typically" integrate with CVS? Is it just a
matter of executing the cvs command (say, via Runtime.exec()) and then
capturing and parsing the output? Or is there a neater way of
integrating, say with some sort of API?


--Mark

I notice that Netbeans make their CVS client available. I guess the
Eclipse one will be in their source too (at least I don't _think_ it uses
the cvs command... ?)

Anyway, I've not used it, but can't imagine there's much wrong with it:

http://javacvs.netbeans.org/library/