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WANdisco Presents New Initiatives for the Subversion Open Source Project
Makers of Subversion MultiSite Set to Contribute Server-Side Java APIs and NewObliterate Feature.
(1888PressRelease) October 28, 2009 - San Ramon, CA - WANdisco, a leading provider of infrastructure software for replication, scalability & high availability, today will present 2 new initiatives for the Subversion open source project at SubConf 2009. Thesenew efforts, sponsored by WANdisco, will result in new features, SubversionJ andObliterate, which will be contributed to the Subversion open source project under thesame Apache open source license currently used by the project.The first initiative, SubversionJ, or SVNJ, will provide a rich server-side JAVA API thatwill leverage Subversion’s established code base written in the C programming language.This will allow the Subversion community to reach out to millions of JAVA developersand enable the same expansion and enrichment of Subversion functionality on the server-side that has been seen on the client-side due to the rich set of APIs for JAVA, Pythonand Perl that are available.SubversionJ’s goals are to:• Reach out to millions of JAVA developers who may become contributors.• Reuse the existing Subversion code base wherever possible.• Provide a server-side SVN/DAV implementation that will deploy in any standard J2EEcontainer.• Provide a simple, pluggable API for custom authentication and authorizationimplementations.• Provide an API for a wide range of database back ends to offer deployment options beyond FSFS.The second initiative is the development of the new Obliterate feature designed toaddress requirements to cleanly remove obsolete files and other data from Subversionrepositories. Subversion's design has always been based on the concept that recordedhistory will never change and such a feature has never been included. Users andadministrators have had to rely on workarounds that involve dump, filter and reload stepsthat can be error prone and result in unintended data loss. Now that Subversion has experienced wide adoption by large corporate developmentorganizations that have used similar features with other version control systems,Obliterate is becoming a hard requirement. In order to provide this new feature and at thesame time respect the principles underlying Subversion’s design, Obliterate will includecomprehensive audit and recovery capabilities to ensure that history is always available.
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