Using the web for document versioning: an implementation report for Delta V

  • Authors:

  • James J. Hunt;Jürgen Reuter

  • Affiliations:

  • Forschungszentrum Informatik, Haid- und Neu-Straβe 10-14, 76131 Karlsruhe, BRD;Institut für Programmstrukturen und Datenorganisation (IPD), Universität Karlsruhe, Am Fasanengarten 4, 76128 Karlsruhe, BRD

  • Venue:
  • ICSE '01 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

The current suite of systems that offer client/server capabilities for document versioning relies on proprietary protocols for communicating between a central versioning repository and a remote client. In order to support better document authoring via the Web, the DeltaV working group of the Web-DAV (WWW Distributed Authoring and Versioning) project of the Internet Engineering Task Force is working on a standard protocol for versioning over HTTP. The authors present a prototype of DeltaV based on the 04.5 draft. This system demonstrates that, though important aspects of the protocol need to be revised, versioning via the Web can be a practical means of supporting remote access to a central versioning repository.