Hi,

>
> In fact, changing the return type does break binary compatibility (binary
> compatibility is different from source compatibility), since the return
> type of a method is part of is java signature.
> This means that if someone would want to use the new jar (with changed
> return type) as a drop-in replacement, without recompiling anything else,
> the code would not execute (without NoSuchMethodError thrown).
>
Thanks for these explanations. I guess this change will have to wait !

Sébastien


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