The order of exceptions is not part of the API
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#34 The order of exceptions is not part of the API
Rohit Aggarwal pointed out that JDiff currently marks
methods as changed when the order of the exceptions
declared with throws is changed, and tells you so in a
report.
The Java Language Specification doesn't mention it, but
further discussion confirmed our belief that the order
makes no difference to the behaviour of a Java
application. Maybe the bytecode is different, I don't
know.
The patch checks whether the only change in a method
is the order of the exceptions, and ignores this as a
change. It will become the default behaviour for the next
release of JDiff.
~Matt
Diff to ignore exception order changes