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JDiff - An HTML Report of API Differences

JDiff is a Javadoc doclet which generates an HTML report of all the packages, classes, constructors, methods, and fields which have been removed, added or changed in any way, including their documentation, when two APIs are compared. This is very useful for describing exactly what has changed between two releases of a product. Only the API (Application Programming Interface) of each version is compared. It does not compare what the source code does when executed.

It's great for reporting what has changed between two releases of your product! You can download the latest version from here, with a module name of jdiff. You can also download the latest nightly gzipped tarball of the source code. There is also an article in Java Developers Journal.

Note: to eliminate the annoying register.com banner, after you choose a report from below, simply click on "No Frames" or "Frames".

Documentation

Sample Output

Comparing J2SE1.4.2 and J2SE1.5.0b1. Report (KB, gzip'd tar) Download

Comparing J2SE1.4.0 and J2SE1.4.1. Report (13KB, gzip'd tar) Download

Comparing J2SE1.4.0 and J2SE1.4.1 including documentation and statistics. Report (528KB, gzip'd tar) Download

Comparing J2SE1.3.1 and J2SE1.4. Report (456KB, gzip'd tar) Download

Comparing J2SE1.3.1 and J2SE1.4 including documentation and statistics. Report (2.9MB, gzip'd tar) Download

Comparing J2SE1.3 and J2SE1.3.1 including documentation and statistics

Comparing J2SE1.2 and J2SE1.3

Comparing J2SE1.2 and J2SE1.3 including documentation and statistics