---
name: "jardiff"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "jardiff"
version: "0.2-6"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/jardiff"
---

# jardiff(1)

tool to visualise API differences between two JAR files

## NAME

jardiff - tool to visualise API differences between two JAR files

## DESCRIPTION

usage: jardiff **-f** \<from jar\> **-t** \<to jar\> \[**-F** \<from name\>\] \[**-T** \<to name\>\] \[\[**-o** \<xml\|html\|xhtml\|text\>\]\|\[**-x** \<xsl file\>\]\] \[**-O** \<file\>\] \[**-s** \<href\>\] \[**-fa** \<href\>\] \[**-ta** \<href\>\]

- **-f**,--from \<arg\>

  from jar file

- **-F**,--from-name \<arg\>

  from name

- **-fa**,--from-api \<arg\>

  relative location of from api

- **-h**,--help

  print help on command line arguments

- **-o**,--output-format \<arg\>

  output format, xml or html

- **-O**,--out \<arg\>

  output file

- **-s**,--stylesheet \<arg\>

  stylesheet to link to when generating html

- **-T**,--to-name \<arg\>

  to name

- **-t**,--to \<arg\>

  to jar file

- **-ta**,--to-api \<arg\>

  relative location of to api

- **-x**,--xsl \<arg\>

  custom xsl sheet to format output with