
I’m excited to announce the first Jarviz release. v0.1.0 is here! What is Jarviz you may ask, it’s a brand new CLI tool that can inspect JAR files and provide insight on their contents. I build tools as a hobby. Some of these tools require Java 8 as a baseline because consumers may not have upgraded to recent versions of Java. As such tools must ensure their dependencies are compatible and do not contain bytecode higher than 52 (Java 8). I use the EnforceBytecodeVersion rule for Maven or Gradle given the build tool of choice for a particular tool. Yet Read More