vcdiff

Diff Algorithm

I've been looking like crazy for an explanation of a diff algorithm that works and is efficient. The closest I got is this link to RFC 3284 (from several Eric Sink blog posts), which describes in perfectly understandable terms the data format in which the diff results are stored. However, it has no mention whatsoever as to how a program...

VCDIFF for Java or alternative binary diff formats

Is there an open-source Java implementation of the VCDIFF binary diff format (decoder and encoder)? There are xdelta and open-vcdiff, but those are both C libraries. Alternatively, are the other formats/algorithms that one could use to generate diffs for binary files from Java? ...