Introduction

This document lists changes made to the Classfile API.

Index of APIs

classfile

Incompatible changes by date

Fuller descriptions of all changes can be found below (follow links).

Not all deprecations are listed here, assuming that the deprecated APIs continue to essentially work. For a full deprecation list, please consult the Javadoc.

All changes by date

(Feb 13 '13) Support for Java 7 classfile enhancements.
(Dec 6 '05) Support for Java 6 classfile enhancements.
(Nov 9 '04) Support for Java 5 classfile enhancements.

Changes by version

These API specification versions may be used to indicate that a module requires a certain API feature in order to function. For example, if you see here a feature you need which is labelled 1.20, your manifest should contain in its main attributes the line:

OpenIDE-Module-Module-Dependencies: org.netbeans.modules.classfile/1 > 1.20

(1.40) Support for Java 7 classfile enhancements.
(1.18) Support for Java 6 classfile enhancements.
(1.14) Support for Java 5 classfile enhancements.

Changes by affected class

`org.netbeans.modules.classfile.ClassFile`

(Feb 13 '13) Support for Java 7 classfile enhancements.
(Dec 6 '05) Support for Java 6 classfile enhancements.
(Nov 9 '04) Support for Java 5 classfile enhancements.

Details of all changes by API and date

classfile

Support for Java 7 classfile enhancements.

Feb 13 '13; API spec. version: 1.40; affected top-level classes: ClassFile; made by: jlahoda; issues: #225528
Java 7 added a several new constant pool entry types to support the invokeDynamic instruction. These need to be modeled by the library.

Support for Java 6 classfile enhancements.

Dec 6 '05; API spec. version: 1.18; affected top-level classes: ClassFile; made by: tball; issues: #69729
Java 6 added a new classfile verifier, which uses the new code attribute, StackMapTable. This adds support for that attribute.

Support for Java 5 classfile enhancements.

Nov 9 '04; API spec. version: 1.14; affected top-level classes: ClassFile; made by: tball; issues: #41922
Java 5 added several attributes to the JVM classfile format to support generics, annotations, varargs, and enums. The classfile module was enhanced to add access to all of these new attributes.