Abstract:
As part of an investigation of scalable development techniques for
systems written in the Java(tm) programming language, the Forest Project
is building JP, a prototype distributed programming environment. For
extensibility and usability, a mechanism is required to coordinate the
activity of multiple editor programs (each specializing in particular
source types) with the JP versioning system. The JP architecture makes
it possible, using a very simple framework, to coordinate loosely
coupled Java-implemented editors that share no data representations
with one another or with the versioning system. This framework also
supports a streamlined user model for editing that keeps users'
version awareness to an absolute minimum during routine development
tasks. This architecture relies on two key technologies: orthogonally
persistent object storage, and orthogonal versioning of hierarchical,
immutable, source objects.
8th International Symposium on System Configuration Management (SCM-8) , Brussels, July 20-21, 1998.
Published as Volume 1439 in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science
16 pages (PDF)