Mojo Animal Sniffer Version 1.13 Released

calendar Dec 9, 2014 · 1 min read  ·
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Hi,

The Mojo team is pleased to announce the release of Animal Sniffer version 1.13.

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:

  • A command line tool to dump the class file version number. This helps you track down the offending jar file when you see UnsupportedClassVersionError.

  • A set of ANT tasks 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.

  • A rule for use in the maven-enforcer-plugin for verifying that your classes comply with an API signature .

  • A maven plugin 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 1.13

New Feature:

  • MANIMALSNIFFER-48 - Resolve signature version from dependencies / dependencyManagement if unspecified

The Mojo Team