jdiff is not a bad option and maybe possible - I'd hoped someone might have written one already ;-). One thing to watch out for on binary compatability is changing method return types, which breaks binary compatability.
Stephen > The only thing I can think of is the jdiff tool. As long as things are > only added, I would assume binary compatibility is kept? > > So if jdiff were to create an xml report before the html [it might be able > to do this], you could write something to create a different html report > that merely cares about binary compatibility. > > Hen > > On Sun, 2 May 2004, Stephen Colebourne wrote: > > > Does anyone know of a tool to test whether a new version of a jar file is > > binary compatible with the old version? > > > > Stephen > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
