Hello. I've created a proposal at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GSOC_2012/Student_Application_Alexandermezin/Java_API_changes_checker I propose an utility that will be able to automatically generate information about classes/methods inside the .jars and classes/methods required by the .jars, and check if all of the dependencies are satisfied. Additionally, it will be able to list all known dependencies of some .jar. Checking of API changes that break something is only one of possible use cases. I've just read Vipul Amler's proposal on the same project idea: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GSOC_2012/Student_Application_Vipulnsward/Java_API-ABI_Checker Main differences from his proposed project: 1. If I'm not mistaken, he focuses on listing API changes only. I propose a tool that will generate list of dependencies from class files/jars/packages - useful for package maintainers. 2. I will implement it in Java. I think that it's better to write tools for Java in Java itself.
