ASCET-SCM Architecture

As there are multiple tools on the market which differ in their interfaces as well as in the way they handle software versioning, ASCET-SCM is made up of different layers.

Part of ASCET-SCM is directly integrated in the ASCET base package. This involves additional data needed for ASCET items if these are managed by SCM Source Configuration Management, a general term for versioning of software elements and their relationships. tools.
To handle all activities between ASCET and SCM tools, a separate ASCET-SCM server application runs in parallel to ASCET.
Any SCM tool specific actions are encapsulated in separate packages (called "drivers") which are loaded by the ASCET-SCM server for the corresponding SCM tool that is used in the current ASCET database or workspace.
Each driver connects to APIs of specific SCM tools, e.g. SVN Driver connects to the command line interface offered by Subversion.