Re: Version Control on DBContent

    Awesome. So I found two links that are a good lead.

http://www.bmsi.com/java/ - This guy took the same algorithm used in Unix's diff command.

http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/aw.nsf/frame?ReadForm&/aw.nsf/techmain/CB2EF93 8D7532F338825671B0068244F - IBM's Alphaworks XML diff class that actually compares changes made by one or several ppl.

    I think the second one might be more in context with the issue I am having.

Torgeir Veimo <torgeir_at_vertech.no> wrote in message news:39C6D315.F119B0DB_at_vertech.no...
> Cory L Hubert wrote:
> >
> > Hello. I am using programming java based system that needs to be
 able
> > to keep track of changes to any given content. Similar to the way a
> > Visual SourceSafe or a CVS, but only for content. In order to do this
 I
> > have to
> >
> > 1. Make the information temporal ( Add Start and End Dates to the
 Content
> > in the database)
> > 2. Append the user who changed the content in a modifided history
 table.
> > 3. Be able to compare two version of the content and automatically
 pinpoint
> > it's differences.
> >
> > I am not sure if I am taking the correct approach. Number 1 will
> > require many copies of information that is similar. Number 2 is no
 problem.
> > But Number 3 seems like it will be a lot of work!!!!
>
> I have searched a lot, and there doesn't seem to exist any DIFF
> implementations in Java that can handle binary data. If you need
> references to diff for textual data (data organized into lines), a
> simple search on +diff +java will turn up some interesting code.
>
> If you find any binary diff implementations in java, please let us know.
>
> --
> - Torgeir
Received on Tue Sep 19 2000 - 15:41:47 CEST