This page provides information about how to access Batik's source code. There are four main ways:

• The first, and prefered method for developers, is through anonymouse Subversion. Anyone can checkout source code from our anonymous SVN server. To do so, simply use the following commands (if you are using a GUI SVN client, configure it appropriately):
  svn checkout http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/xmlgraphics/batik/trunk/
• The second and probably easiest is by downloading a source distribution. These are the packages that start with 'batik-src'. These correspond to the major releases of Batik.
  
• The third is by downloading a nightly build. The '-cvs-' packages contain a complete copy of CVS for a given date (before the move to Subversion). Snapshots of the SVN repository will be made available soon. The '-src-' packages contain only what is needed to build and run Batik. The biggest difference being that SVN includes the test infrastructure.
  
• The fourth is through viewcvs. This provides the ability to traverse the SVN repository over the web, and check differences between versions. This is generally only useful for tracking a small number of files/changes.