A decentralised P2P revision management system using a proactive mechanism. (3rd April 2006)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Takata, Katsuhiro; Ma, Jianhua
• Is Part Of: International journal of high performance computing and networking. Volume 3:Number 5/6(2005)
• Page Start: 336
• Page End: 345
• Publication Date: 2006-04-03
• Subjects: version management -- proactive agents -- synchronisation -- shared space -- workspace -- peer to peer networks -- P2P -- revision management systems -- collision prevention -- software source code synchronisation -- overlay networks -- internet -- LANs -- WANs -- high performance networking; High performance computing -- Periodicals; Computer networks -- Periodicals; High performance computing; Periodicals; 004.05
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1740-0562

Abstract

This paper presents a prototype and evaluations of the GRAM, a peer to peer (P2P) and a revision management system based on a proactive mechanism. GRAM performs revision collision prevention management and software source code synchronisation in a potential overlay network of peers connected via the internet or a LAN/WAN. This system provides four special features in comparison with other version management systems: higher system reliability and robustness, effective revision collision prevention using proactive agents, context aware environment for team software revision, and a unified XML format for configurations and history files as well as for system and agent exchange their control messages. Each peer of the GRAM system has a unique identifier provided by the JXTA framework, and holds two spaces: a shared space synchronised other peers' ones, and a workspace for a user's ordinary editing. Experimental results obtained with a prototype implementation on an enumerated network confirm GRAM's efficiency. By using GRAM, version managements of various software development projects can be comfortably conducted.