This should give me a clearer and more honest picture of the differences. Since I wanted the best possible comparison between the two JAR files I needed to compare all Class files in the JAR by decompiling and comparing. This was partly because the compiler compiled the Class files at a different timestamp. When I compared the content of the two JAR files (with a binary compare) all the content was radically changed. In the JAR files were different Class files present. It was required to know that the result of the restructuring and refactoring hadn't changed the artifacts, thus the JAR files.
When I was recently working on a large restructuring and refactoring where I also replaced Ant by Maven, it was really necessary to compare the complete content of two different JAR files.
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