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.
This code sample shows how to write a simple javaDOC 1.2 Doclet. Used with javaDOC, it can generate a Unix-style inverted index for a set of Java classes, with links to real Java API documentation. Includes directions and source code.
This doclet requires JDK 1.2.1 or later, it will not work with JDK 1.1
