How to download file from vss through java code

[sirisha makkapati]

Hi to All,

I wanted to download spec.doc file from vss through java code.
can any one give me the code,

My Vss Path=C:\Visula-SourceSafe\srcsafe.ini and file path in vss is $\Docs\spec.doc.

Thanks in advance.

[Paul Sturrock]

VSS is a Microsoft product and has no Java API. It does have a command line tool called ss.exe which you can call with a ProcessBuilder. Check the help files that come with VSS to see what the command whould be.

[Ulf Dittmer]

The Apache Ant tool ships with tasks that integrate with VSS, so you could either run a suitable Ant build file programmatically, or rip out the code that accesses VSS and use that in your code. It most likely uses Runtime.exec or ProcessBuilder internally.

[Pat Farrell]

Of course, its fairly easy to do this using SVN/subversion

[Ulf Dittmer]

Originally posted by Pat Farrell:
Of course, its fairly easy to do this using SVN/subversion

This intrigues me. Are you saying that it's easy to use Java to access an SVN repository, or that somehow SVN can be used to access a VSS repository? Both would be nice, actually.