(Apologies to folks without access to the older sources.)
On 07/18/11 15:00, Sean Mullan wrote:
On 7/18/11 5:35 PM, Alexandre Boulgakov wrote:
Is there an easy way to see when a class was added to the JDK?
For standard API classes, you can use the @since javadoc tag which will indicate
the release it was first introduced in.
Standard, exported API classes. Some of the underlying support classes
for API packages like java.*.* weren't always @since'd properly.
For internal classes, there is no easy way, since most don't have an @since tag.
I would probably write a script that checks the rt.jar of each of the JREs that
are archived at /java/re/jdk. The pathnames should be fairly consistent, just
the version number is different.
Don't know which classes you're talking about here, but some classes
started out in other jar files and eventually wound up in rt.jar. Also,
some files live in files other than rt.jar. I usually go to the source
when looking for something. If it's originally from JSSE/JGSS/JCE,
you'll need to look on our restricted access machine.
When I'm looking for something that is in the jdk/j2se workspaces, I go
right to the old Codemgr data, specifically the nametable file, because
many times the files you want may be in a src/<arch>/classes instead of
src/share/classes.
% grep -i SunMSCAPI.java
<RE-repository>/5.0/latest/ws/j2se/Codemgr_wsdata/nametable
% grep -i SunMSCAPI.java
<RE-repository>/6.0/latest/ws/j2se/Codemgr_wsdata/nametable
src/windows/classes/sun/security/mscapi/SunMSCAPI.java ada8dbe4 a217f6b0
6c833bd3 d4ef32be
That will usually give you a good starting point.
Brad
Depending on rt.jar or not.
Chris, do you have any other ideas?
--Sean
