Sun Microsystems 2 manual Signature File Body, 4Signature File Content Summary

Signature File Body

The remaining body of a signature file immediately follows the header. It contains the following information, which is further clarified in TABLE 2-4:

■For each public or protected class, all modifiers except strictfp, and the fully qualified name of any superclass or interfaces implemented, generic type parameters, and annotations.

■For each public or protected interface, all modifiers except strictfp, and the fully qualified name of any superinterfaces implemented, generic type parameters, and annotations.

■For each public or protected field, all modifiers except transient, the fully qualified name of the field’s type and its fully qualified name. If the field is a primitive or string constant, the value of the field is included.

■For each public or protected method, all modifiers (except native, synchronized, and strictfp), the fully qualified name of the type of returned value, the method’s fully qualified name, types of all parameters, and the names of exceptions declared in a throws clause.

■For each public or protected constructor, all modifiers, the fully qualified name of the constructor, types of all parameters, and any exceptions declared in a throws clause.

Note – All private types that are used in the definition of a public or protected item are substituted by their public or protected equivalent if possible, otherwise an error is generated. All types included in a signature file are either public or protected and not private or package local.

TABLE 2-4further summarizes the contents of a generated signature file. A plus (+) indicates a class modifier is included in a generated signature file and a minus (-) indicates it is ignored for that particular element. A blank cell indicates that the condition does not apply to a cell, for example, a class does not have a transient modifier so it is blank.

TABLE 2-4Signature File Content Summary

Modifier	Class or	Field	Method	Constructor	Nested Class
	Interface				or Interface
public	+	+	+	+	+
protected		+	+	+	+
abstract	+		+		+
static		+	+		+
final	+	+	+		+

18 Signature Test Tool 2.0 User’s Guide • April 2008