RevJava release history

Release 0.8.5 (7-2-2003)

This release fixes some bugs

Fixes/Changes:

• Split unused accessor field critic into unused getter and unused getter
• Added (initial) support for user-settings, including a recently used project list. The data is saved in a file in the user.home directory.
• The project-settings have been moved to a separate top-level settings menu
• The program now uses the platform look and feel by default (for the time being).
• Fixed overly public method critic to ignore methods in interfaces (Thanks Gert Rijs).
• Fixed bug where RevJava kept zip/jar files open after loading, sometimes  causing errors on reload (Thanks Marc Evers and Gert Rijs)
• Fixed Field critics "local variable" and "non private field" to ignore implicit fields generated when a class is referenced (e.g. x.class); (Thanks Marc Evers, Gert Rijs)
• Fixed very subtle bug causing classes to be doubly instantiated/loaded after loading error on a particular type, leading to strange criticisms (Thanks George Dinwiddie for pointing this out).
• Various internal changes in preparation for  Eclipse plugin integration

Release 0.8.4 (12-9-2002)

This release adds several new critics, while reducing the "noise factor on others by about 10%.

The total number of critics available is now 94.

Fixes/Changes:

• - Specialized package graph export into package use graph
• - Fine-tuned definition of class critics Module Mimic, No Instances
• - Renamed Misplaced type to Move type
• - Adapted definition of Make Inner to apply to local (in package) usages
• - Method critic "Remote Field Manipulation" now ignores fields in supertypes and outer types
• - Fixed bug that made Initializer critics unavailable
• - Tuned "God class" critic somewhat
• - Metric Export now exports all metrics, also on fields and methods
• - XML Export now exports all metrics and criticisms
• - Fixed command line launching options to work again; added  instructions to helpfile.
• - "Abstraction Breaking" critic now ignores interfaces and own hierarchy.
• - "Helper Method" critic now ignores methods that are redefiners/redefined
• - "Highly Coupled" critic now uses 2.5 times the average method fanout as treshold
• -  Corrected bug in calculating average method size for empty packages
• - "Large method" critic now uses a treshold of 3 times the average nr of statements

New features:

• - Added option to show source code from critics view
• - New class critic "Disable instantiation"
• - New method critic "Supertype Field Manipulation"
• - New class critic "Unrelated constructors"
• - New class critic "Collection inheritance"
• - New class critic "Implicit interface implementation"

Release 0.8.3 (3-9-2002)

Fixes:

• Added support for 1.2++ class file formats, generated by default in JDK 1.4
• Fixed a bug causing class critics to be displayed when "interface" was selected in the criticsviewer.
• Overly public method and non-private method critics are no longer triggered on unused methods
• Fixed bug leading to double occurrence of critics in critic selection and critic help panel.
• Some small GUI fixes

New features:

• Added method and field metrics to metricviewer to allow easier searching of big methods. No export yet.
• Added new Type critic - "Inner type in Interface"
• Added class critic "Define equals when defining hashCode"
• Added method critic "Overridable initializers" on constructors calling overridable methods
• Added method critic "Overridden initializers" on constructors calling overridden methods