[ANN] Animal Sniffer 1.3 released

[Stephen Connolly <st...@gmail.com>]

The Mojo team is pleased to announce the release of Animal Sniffer version 1.3.

This is the first release of Animal Sniffer
(http://mojo.codehaus.org/animal-sniffer/) since it moved from
java.net to the mojo project at codehaus.

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
(http://mojo.codehaus.org/animal-sniffer/animal-sniffer/index.html).
This helps you track down the offending jar file when you see
UnsupportedClassVersionError.

* 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.

* 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 .

* 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 been deployed to the codehaus repository and have
been/will be
mirrored to central.

The Mojo Team.

Note: as of 10:22 GMT 12/11/2009 animal sniffer has not
been pushed to maven central.  If you cannot wait the (at most) 24
hours for this sync, you can use the codehaus repository
(http://repository.codehaus.org/).

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