JDiff is a Javadoc

Javadoc

Javadoc is a documentation generator from Sun Microsystems for generating API documentation in HTML format from Java source code.The "doc comments" format used by Javadoc is the de facto industry standard for documenting Java classes. Some IDEs, such as Netbeans and Eclipse automatically generate...

 doclets

Doclets

Doclet programs work with the Javadoc tool to generate documentation from code written in Java.Doclets are written in the Java programming language and use the doclet API to:* Select which content to include in the documentation....

 which generates an HTML

HTML

HyperText Markup Language is the predominant markup language for web pages. HTML elements are the basic building-blocks of webpages....

 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 Java

Java (programming language)

Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...

 APIs are compared. This is very useful for describing exactly what has changed between two releases of a product. Only the API of each version is compared. It does not compare what the source code does when executed.

External links

• JDiff homepage
• A sample report - resembles Javadoc reports