Extensible architecture for versioning APIs

Details Extensible architecture for versioning APIs Extensible architecture for versioning APIs

2004-09-07

2009-10-27

Stevens, Robert (Department: 2162)

Data processing: database and file management or data structures

Database design

Data structure types

C707S793000, C717S122000, C717S170000, C719S328000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07610316

ABSTRACT:
Some large software development projects need more than one versioning system to accommodate not only a diversity of document formats and data types, but also the geographic diversity of its programmers. However, having more than one versioning system is generally very expensive. A major factor in this expense is the requirement for a separate application program interface (API) for each separate versioning system. Accordingly, the inventors devised an exemplary API architecture that can be extended with “plug-in”protocol providers to include virtually any number of separate version stores or versioning systems. The exemplary architecture includes a generic command parser and a command dispatcher. The command dispatcher operatively couples to one or more protocol providers, each coupled to at least one version store. Inclusion of the OLE DB-compliant interface and the command parser in the exemplary embodiment saves the protocol providers the effort and expense of replicating these features, thereby reducing the cost of adding version stores.

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