----- Original Message ---- > From: Peter Firmstone <j...@zeus.net.au> > To: river-dev@incubator.apache.org > Sent: Sun, December 5, 2010 3:56:30 PM > Subject: Re: API and VM compatibility verification > > Sim IJskes - QCG wrote: > > On 12/05/2010 02:18 PM, Michał Kłeczek wrote: > >> I know we're not using Maven (yet?) but look at: > >> http://mojo.codehaus.org/animal-sniffer-maven-plugin > >
https://svn.codehaus.org/mojo/tags/animal-sniffer-parent-1.5/animal-sniffer-ant-tasks/src/main/java/org/codehaus/mojo/animal_sniffer/ant/ They have Ant tasks too. Seems one could have some tasks to build and store the signature files then use the check signatures task against pre-stored signature files to speed up the process. Just peeking at the source code it looks like it is just using strict signatures, so the issues with type expansion, such as with the BigDecimal issue I mentioned, should be accounted for I believe. The only cases it looks like it wouldn't work in place of good code coverage and tests in a target runtime are when classes are loaded by name, dynamic, versus strict source code. So, it isn't a complete solution in itself necessarily, but that depends on the logic being examined really: https://svn.codehaus.org/mojo/tags/animal-sniffer-parent-1.5/animal-sniffer/src/main/java/org/codehaus/mojo/animal_sniffer/ Agree, it definitely looks promising. Wade ================== Wade Chandler Software Engineer and Developer NetBeans Dream Team Member and Contributor http://wiki.netbeans.org/wiki/view/NetBeansDreamTeam http://www.netbeans.org
