Missing @since tags

[Mike Duigou]

http://javadiff.sourceforge.net/

Which is implemented as a doclet does provide missing @since detection functionality.

Mike

On Feb 7 2013, at 10:29 , Martin Buchholz wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com>wrote:
> 
>> On 07/02/2013 17:40, Martin Buchholz wrote:
>> 
>>> Alternatively, maybe this is a job for an annotation processor.
>> 
>> 
> IIRC, we considered that 6 years ago.  It might be possible, but consider
> that you need to diff multiple jdk implementations, and the annotation
> processor needs to be able to grok javadoc comments.  Also, there are no
> "annotations" being processed, so it's weird to use an annotation
> processor.  Writing a javadoc doclet is another approach that might work.