Mojo's Animal Sniffer Version 1.12 Released
The Mojo team is pleased to announce the release of Animal Sniffer version 1.12.
Animal Sniffer provides tools to assist verifying that classes compiled with a newer JDK/API are compatible with an older JDK/API.
The following tools are provided by animal sniffer:
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A command line tool to dump the class file version number (http://mojo.codehaus.org/animal-sniffer/animal-sniffer/index.html). This helps you track down the offending jar file when you see UnsupportedClassVersionError.
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A set of ANT tasks (http://mojo.codehaus.org/animal-sniffer/animal-sniffer-ant-tasks/index.html) for verifying that your classes comply with an API signature as well as tasks for creating API signatures from a JDK, or a collection or jar and class files, or a collection of other API signature files, or combination of these elements.
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A rule for use in the maven-enforcer-plugin (http://mojo.codehaus.org/animal-sniffer/animal-sniffer-enforcer-rule/index.html) for verifying that your classes comply with an API signature .
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A maven plugin (http://mojo.codehaus.org/animal-sniffer-maven-plugin/index.html) for verifying that your classes comply with an API signature as well as for creating API signatures from a JDK, or the current module's classes, or the current module's dependencies, or a collection of other API signature files, or combination of these elements.
The artifacts have are available from the Maven Central repository.
Release Notes - Mojo's Animal Sniffer - Version 1.12
New Feature:
- MANIMALSNIFFER-47 - Allow the maven plugin and enforcer rule to be able to filter the dependencies
The Mojo Team.