Matthew Doar http://www.pobox.com/~doar currently works as a software developer at Vitria Technology, Inc. http://www.vitria.com, whose products enable companies to conduct business electronically across corporate networks and across the Internet. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk and has worked with Java since the early days of JDK1.1. He wrote JDiff with the intention that it should be as easy to use as Javadoc, and to improve the overall level of documentation shipped with all Java products.
One of the most common questions Java developers ask after downloading a new
version of a product is: "What really changed?" JDiff is an open source Java
tool, based on Javadoc and developed by the author, that produces HTML
documentation describing the precise API changes between two versions of a
product.
This article uses JDiff to show what changed between J2SE 1.3 and J2SE 1.4,
and describes how developers can use JDiff to document the changes between
two versions of their own products as easily as running Javadoc.
What Changed Between J2SE 1.3 and J2SE 1.4?
Release notes are usually high-level descriptions of feature changes. Product
reference manuals tend to be large. And it's hard to compare different
product versions in Web browsers' windows. Sun's J2SE 1.4 product, with all
its new features, is no exception. When you want to know exactly what changed
betwee... (more)
Matthew Doar http://www.pobox.com/~doar currently works as a software developer at Vitria Technology, Inc. http://www.vitria.com, whose products enable companies to conduct business electronically across corporate networks and across the Internet. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk and has worked with Java since the early days of JDK1.1. He wrote JDiff with the intention that it should be as easy to use as Javadoc, and to improve the overall level of documentation shipped with all Java products.
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