I needed to do some SVN scraping recently to automate the detection of certain areas of code and this is what I learned. Libraries SVNKit was too low level for my(and I suggest most) needs. I found I was writing quite a bit of code for relatively simple actions. SvnClientAdapter provides a simplified interface for either the cmd line client, SVNJavahl or SVNKit. Its my recommendation that for most projects this is the best way to go.
