The reasons for JBehave 3

JBehave 3 is an evolution of JBehave 2, based on the experience using it in commercial projects. With the benefit of this experience, we feel that the overall design stood well the wear and tear, but there were areas which called for improvements that required to break backward compatibility.

Migration path from JBehave 2

From the textual stories point of view, these are almost completely backward compatible. The only exceptions being:

From the Java point of view, significant changes have occurred, but only in the configuration of the running of the stories. The Steps classes, which is where most users' efforts will have gone into can be used without change in JBehave 3.

On the configuration side, the main changes are:

Next?

JBehave development has been example-driven and the examples illustrate all the features, migrated from 2.x or new in 3.x. Be sure check out the running examples, as it's the quickest and most instructive way to get up to speed with the changes outlined above.