JDiff hasn't been updated since 2008. I would be surprised if you could get it to work on jdk8 vs. jdk7 without significant work.
But the key thing is to use a tool, any tool, since history has shown it is very easy for engineers to forget to add the necessary @since tags. On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Mike Duigou <mike.dui...@oracle.com> wrote: > http://javadiff.sourceforge.net/ > > Which is implemented as a doclet does provide missing @since detection > functionality. > > Mike > > On Feb 7 2013, at 10:29 , Martin Buchholz wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com > >wrote: > > > >> On 07/02/2013 17:40, Martin Buchholz wrote: > >> > >>> Alternatively, maybe this is a job for an annotation processor. > >> > >> > > IIRC, we considered that 6 years ago. It might be possible, but consider > > that you need to diff multiple jdk implementations, and the annotation > > processor needs to be able to grok javadoc comments. Also, there are no > > "annotations" being processed, so it's weird to use an annotation > > processor. Writing a javadoc doclet is another approach that might work. > >
