Introduction

What follows is a rough plan of what will be implemented in what order when it comes to JarDiff, unfortunately I cannot give concrete release dates for any of these, as often my spare time is at a premium.

Version 0.1

Version 0.1 included the following features.

• BSD style license
• XML output format
• Text output format
• (x)html output format
• Lightweight and fast
• Good command line interface
• Simple extensible API
• Supports JDK 1.4 or higher

Version 0.2

Version 0.2 includes the following additional features.

• Ant task interface (supports JDK 1.2 or higher)
• Better formatted html output
• Ability to specify a custom stylesheet for html output
• Abillty to link html output to javadocs

Version 0.3

Version 0.3 will include the following additional features.

• Maven interface
• Ability to specify permissions to produce diff for.
  
  (private, package, protected, or public, and/or synthetic)
• Major change to API to mirror java class loading. (needed for dependency loading, which is needed to generate compatability information).

Version 0.4

Version 0.4 will include the following additional features.

• Change compatability information (unknown, none, source, binary, all)
• Ability to fail maven and ant tasks if jars are not compatible.

Version 0.5

Version 0.5 will include the following additional features.

• Eclipse plugin
• JDK 1.5 features (Enums, generics, varargs)

Version 1.0

Version 1.0 will include the following additional features.

• Stabilised API
• Bug fixes
• XML Schema for diff output