Clirr

Clirr is a tool that checks Java libraries for binary and source compatibility with older releases. Basically you give it two sets of jar files and Clirr dumps out a list of changes in the public api. The Clirr Ant task can be configured to break the build if it detects incompatible api changes. In a continuous integration process Clirr can automatically prevent accidental introduction of binary or source compatibility problems.

Features:

• Report all API changes (currently only partially implemented)
• Evaluate each change wrt. binary and source compatibility
• support plain text and XML reports
• Flexible failure handling (warnings vs. errors, break the build or set error property)

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