API Compatibilty check tool

[bruno.arruda]

Hi ppl,

I don´t know if this is the best place to ask this question but I couldn't´t find any better place, and because I follow richfaces for a very long time and the API changes are very well controlled I thougth that maybe you guys could help me. My problem is that I am part of a team that is developing a framework for a VERY large company. We need to track the api compatibility between the versions that we release, I wonder If you guys know any tools that could help us in that task, I found the japitools, but it is very outdated. We need to know what have changed in our interfaces and public classes between two different version of our framework´s API.

Thanks very much in advance.

Best Regards,

Bruno Arruda

[jbalunas]

You may want to look into what the various TCKs use for api checking. These are part of the tools that validate JSF, or EE5 implementations.

There may also be a maven plugin out there, but I don't believe we are using one.

-Jay

[bruno.arruda]

thanks for the fast answer, I found the clirr project, which has a maven plugin, im evaluating it. maybe you guys should use something similar and report the API changes on new versions....

thanks again

best regards.