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Few changes over more than a decade

For me as a single developer on the project, which is admittedly a very small project, there have been remarkably few changes to Class Viewer since 2004. As GUI is the same, while menu has changed a bit, mainly with introduction of Command option. Also originally for some reason I called the XML configuration file packagedirectory.xml but now is more appropriately ClassViewerConfig.xml, and it has some additional internally handling a few new features.

And biggest new features over more than a decade was option to open a class at startup with a command line option, and ability to open a Java file instead of going to JavaDocs.

And Java language forced changes have been minimal with biggest coming with Java 8 and shift in how to access html of JavaDocs.

Spanning over a decade Class Viewer is in essence same thing as was back in 2004, with just a few changes. Does make it easier to maintain.

Posted by James Harris 2016-05-23

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