diff --git a/java/src/SimpleDiff.java b/java/src/SimpleDiff.java
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+/*
+(C) Paul Butler 2008-2012 <http://www.paulbutler.org/>
+May be used and distributed under the zlib/libpng license
+<http://www.opensource.org/licenses/zlib-license.php>
+
+Java implementation by Philippe Fremy, Copyright 2015
+
+*/
+import java.util.AbstractMap;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.stream.Collectors;
+
+public class SimpleDiff {
+	public static void main(String[] args) {
+		System.out.println( diffString("tito", "toto") );
+		System.out.println( diff( Arrays.asList( 
+				"line1: if (titi) {",
+				"line2:      toto();",
+				"line3: }"
+				), Arrays.asList(
+						"line1: if (titi && tutu) {",
+						"line2:      toto();",
+						"line3: }"
+		)));
+		
+		
+	}
+	
+	static public enum DiffOp {
+		ADD('+'), DEL('-'), EQ('=');
+		
+		private char c;
+		
+		DiffOp( char c ) {
+			this.c = c;
+		}
+		
+		static public DiffOp fromString( String s ) {
+			return fromChar( s.charAt(0));
+		}
+
+		static public DiffOp fromInt( int i ) {
+			switch( i ) {
+			case 0:
+				return ADD;
+			case 1:
+				return DEL;
+			case 2:
+				return EQ;
+			}
+			
+			return EQ;
+		}
+		
+
+		
+		static public DiffOp fromChar( char c ) {
+			switch( c ) {
+			case '+':
+				return ADD;
+			case '-':
+				return DEL;
+			case '=':
+				return EQ;
+			}
+			
+			return EQ;
+		}
+		
+		public String toString() {
+			return String.valueOf(c);
+		}
+	}
+	
+	/** Return the differences between two generic lists */
+	static public <E> List< Map.Entry<DiffOp, List<E> > > 
+		diff( List<E> olds, List<E> news ) {
+		//System.out.printf("diff \"%s\" vs \"%s\"%n", olds, news );
+	    // Create a map from old values to their indices
+	    Map< E, List<Integer> > oldIndexMap = new HashMap<>();
+		for( int i=0; i<olds.size(); i++) {
+			List<Integer> indexList = oldIndexMap.getOrDefault(olds.get(i), new ArrayList<Integer>());
+			indexList.add(i);
+			oldIndexMap.put(olds.get(i), indexList);
+		}
+		
+		//System.out.printf( "oldIndexMap: %s%n", oldIndexMap );
+		
+		// Find the largest substring common to old and new.
+	    // We use a dynamic programming approach here.
+	    // 
+	    // We iterate over each value in the `new` list, calling the
+	    // index `inew`. At each iteration, `overlap[iold]` is the
+	    // length of the largest suffix of `old[:iold]` equal to a suffix
+	    // of `new[:inew]` (or unset when `old[iold]` != `new[inew]`).
+	    //
+	    // At each stage of iteration, the new `overlap` (called
+	    // `_overlap` until the original `overlap` is no longer needed)
+	    // is built from the old one.
+	    //
+	    // If the length of overlap exceeds the largest substring
+	    // seen so far (`sub_length`), we update the largest substring
+	    // to the overlapping strings.
+		
+		// `subStartOld` is the index of the beginning of the largest overlapping
+		// substring in the old list. `subStartNew` is the index of the beginning
+		// of the same substring in the new list. `subLength` is the length that
+		// overlaps in both.
+		
+		// These track the largest overlapping substring seen so far, so naturally
+		// we start with a 0-length substring.
+		int subStartOld=0, subStartNew=0, subLength=0;
+		HashMap<Integer, Integer> overlap, _overlap;
+		
+		overlap = new HashMap<>();
+		
+		for( int inew=0; inew<news.size(); inew++) {
+			_overlap = new HashMap<>();
+			E val=news.get(inew);
+			for( Integer iold : oldIndexMap.getOrDefault(val, new ArrayList<Integer>()) ) {
+				// now we are considering all values of iold such that
+	            // `old[iold] == new[inew]`.
+				if (iold == 0) {
+					_overlap.put(iold, 1);
+				} else {
+					_overlap.put(iold, overlap.getOrDefault(iold-1, 0)+1 );
+				}
+				
+				if (_overlap.get(iold) > subLength) {
+			        // this is the largest substring seen so far, so store its
+		            // indices
+					subLength = _overlap.get(iold);
+					subStartOld = iold - subLength + 1;
+					subStartNew = inew - subLength + 1;
+				}				
+			}
+			overlap = _overlap;
+			//System.out.printf("inew=%d %s%n", inew, overlap);
+		}
+		
+		List< Map.Entry<DiffOp, List<E> > > ret = new ArrayList<>();
+		if (subLength==0) {
+			// no common substring found
+			if (olds.size() > 0) {
+				ret.add( new AbstractMap.SimpleEntry<> (DiffOp.DEL, olds ) );
+			}
+			if (news.size() > 0) {
+				ret.add( new AbstractMap.SimpleEntry<> (DiffOp.ADD, news ) );
+			}
+		} else {
+			ret.addAll( diff( olds.subList(0, subStartOld), news.subList(0, subStartNew)) );
+			ret.add( new AbstractMap.SimpleEntry<>(DiffOp.EQ, news.subList(subStartNew, subStartNew + subLength) ) );
+			ret.addAll( diff( olds.subList(subStartOld+subLength, olds.size()), news.subList(subStartNew+subLength, news.size())));
+		}
+		//System.out.println( ret );
+		return ret;
+	}
+	
+	static String listCharToString( List<Character> l ) {
+		StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
+		for( Character c : l ) {
+			builder.append( c );
+		}
+		return builder.toString();
+	}
+	
+	/** Return the difference between two strings */
+	static public List< Map.Entry<DiffOp, String > > diffString( String olds, String news ) {
+		List<Character> oldList = new ArrayList<>();
+		List<Character> newList = new ArrayList<>();
+		for( int i=0; i<olds.length(); i++) {
+			oldList.add( olds.charAt(i));
+		}
+		for( int i=0; i<news.length(); i++) {
+			newList.add( news.charAt(i));
+		}
+		
+		List< Map.Entry<DiffOp, List<Character> > > retList = diff( oldList, newList );
+		
+		List< Map.Entry<DiffOp, String> > retString = retList.stream().map(
+			entry -> new AbstractMap.SimpleEntry<>(
+				entry.getKey(),
+				listCharToString( entry.getValue() ) ) ).collect( Collectors.toList());
+		
+		return retString;
+	}
+
+}
+
diff --git a/java/src/SimpleDiffTest.java b/java/src/SimpleDiffTest.java
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+import static org.junit.Assert.*;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import java.util.AbstractMap;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.stream.Collectors;
+
+
+public class SimpleDiffTest {
+
+	static String diffDataCharOld = "The quick brown fox.";
+	static String diffDataCharNew = "The kuick brown fix.";
+    static String[][] diffDataCharExpected = {
+    		{ "=", "The " },
+    		{ "-", "q" },
+            { "+", "k" },
+            { "=", "uick brown f" },
+            { "-", "o" },
+            { "+", "i" },
+            { "=", "x." },
+	};
+	
+	@Test
+	public void testDiffString() {
+		List< Map.Entry<SimpleDiff.DiffOp, String > > ret;
+		List< Map.Entry<SimpleDiff.DiffOp, String > > expected;
+		ret = SimpleDiff.diffString(diffDataCharOld, diffDataCharNew);
+		
+		expected = Arrays.asList( diffDataCharExpected ).stream()
+			.map(ar -> new AbstractMap.SimpleEntry<SimpleDiff.DiffOp, String>(
+					SimpleDiff.DiffOp.fromString(ar[0]), ar[1]) )
+			.collect(Collectors.toList());
+		assertEquals(expected, ret);;
+		
+	}
+    
+  static String[] diffDataWordOld1 = { "The", "quick", "brown", "fox" };
+  static String[] diffDataWordNew1 = { "The", "slow", "green", "turtle" };
+  static String[][] diffDataWordExpected1 = {
+    	{"=", "The"},
+      {"-", "quick", "brown", "fox"},
+      {"+", "slow", "green", "turtle"},
+  };
+    
+  static String[] diffDataWordOld2 = { "jumps", "over", "the", "lazy", "dog" };
+  static String[] diffDataWordNew2 = { "walks", "around", "the", "orange", "cat" };
+  static String[][] diffDataWordExpected2 = {
+    {"-", "jumps", "over" },
+    {"+", "walks", "around" },
+    {"=", "the" },
+    {"-", "lazy", "dog" },
+    {"+", "orange", "cat" },
+  };
+    
+	@Test
+	public void testDiffWord1() {
+		subDiffWord(diffDataWordOld1, diffDataWordNew1, diffDataWordExpected1 );
+	}
+	
+	@Test
+	public void testDiffWord2() {
+		subDiffWord(diffDataWordOld2, diffDataWordNew2, diffDataWordExpected2 );
+	}
+	
+	public void subDiffWord( String[] oldWord, String[] newWord, String[][] expectedWord ) {
+		List< Map.Entry<SimpleDiff.DiffOp, List<String> > > ret;
+		List< Map.Entry<SimpleDiff.DiffOp, List<String> > > expected;
+		ret = SimpleDiff.diff(Arrays.asList(oldWord), Arrays.asList(newWord));
+		
+		expected = Arrays.asList( expectedWord ).stream()
+			.map(ar -> new AbstractMap.SimpleEntry<SimpleDiff.DiffOp, List<String> >(
+					SimpleDiff.DiffOp.fromString(ar[0]), 
+						Arrays.asList(ar).subList(1, ar.length) ) )
+			.collect(Collectors.toList());
+		assertEquals(expected, ret);
+	}
+
+  static int ADD=0;
+  static int DEL=1;
+  static int EQ=2;
+
+  static Integer[] diffDataIntOld1 = {1, 3, 4};
+  static Integer[] diffDataIntNew1 = {1, 2, 3, 4};
+  static Integer[][] diffDataIntExpected1 = {
+    {EQ ,1 },
+    {ADD, 2},
+    {EQ, 3, 4},
+  };
+
+  static Integer[] diffDataIntOld2 = {1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 12, 13 };
+  static Integer[] diffDataIntNew2 = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15};
+  static Integer[][] diffDataIntExpected2 = {
+      { EQ, 1, 2, 3 },
+      { ADD, 4, 5, 6, 7 },
+      { EQ, 8, 9 },
+      { ADD, 10, 11 },
+      { EQ, 12, 13 },
+      { ADD, 14, 15 },
+  };
+        
+  static Integer[] diffDataIntOld34 = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5 };
+  static Integer[] diffDataIntNew34 = {1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 5};
+  static Integer[][] diffDataIntExpected34 = {
+      { EQ, 1 },
+      { ADD, 2 },
+      { EQ, 2, 3, 4, 5 },
+  };
+        
+  static Integer[] diffDataIntOld4 = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5 };
+  static Integer[] diffDataIntNew4 = {1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 4, 5};
+  static Integer[][] diffDataIntExpected4 = {
+      { EQ, 1 },
+      { ADD, 2 },
+      { EQ, 2, 3, 4 },
+      { ADD, 4 },
+      { EQ, 5 },
+  };
+        
+  static Integer[] diffDataIntOld5 = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5 };
+  static Integer[] diffDataIntNew5 = {1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 3, 2, 1, 4, 5};
+  static Integer[][] diffDataIntExpected5 = {
+      { ADD, 1, 2 },
+      { EQ, 1, 2, 3 },
+      { ADD, 3, 2, 1 },
+      { EQ, 4, 5 },
+  };
+        
+  static Integer[] diffDataIntOld6 = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5};
+  static Integer[] diffDataIntNew6 = {1, 2, 5};
+  static Integer[][] diffDataIntExpected6 = {
+      { EQ, 1, 2 },
+      { DEL, 3, 4 },
+      { EQ, 5 },
+  };
+        
+  static Integer[] diffDataIntOld7 = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8};
+  static Integer[] diffDataIntNew7 = {3, 6, 7};
+  static Integer[][] diffDataIntExpected7 = {
+      { DEL, 1, 2 },
+      { EQ, 3 },
+      { DEL, 4, 5 },
+      { EQ, 6, 7 },
+      { DEL, 8 },
+  };
+        
+  static Integer[] diffDataIntOld8 = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5};
+  static Integer[] diffDataIntNew8 = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5};
+  static Integer[][] diffDataIntExpected8 = {
+     {EQ, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5},
+     {DEL, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5},
+  };
+
+	@Test
+	public void testDiffInt1() {
+		subDiffInt(Arrays.asList(diffDataIntOld2), 
+				Arrays.asList(diffDataIntNew2), 
+				Arrays.asList(diffDataIntExpected2).stream()
+				.map(ar -> Arrays.asList(ar)).collect(Collectors.toList()));
+	}
+	
+	public void subDiffInt( List<Integer> oldIntList, List<Integer> newIntList, List<List<Integer>> expectedIntList ) {
+		List< Map.Entry<SimpleDiff.DiffOp, List<Integer> > > ret;
+		List< Map.Entry<SimpleDiff.DiffOp, List<Integer> > > expected;
+		ret = SimpleDiff.diff(oldIntList, newIntList);
+		
+		expected = expectedIntList.stream()
+			.map(li -> new AbstractMap.SimpleEntry<SimpleDiff.DiffOp, List<Integer> >(
+					SimpleDiff.DiffOp.fromInt(li.get(0)), 
+						li.subList(1, li.size()) ) )
+			.collect(Collectors.toList());
+		assertEquals(expected, ret);
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	public void testListCharToString() {
+		Character[] listChar = { 't', 'o', 't', 'o' };
+		assertEquals( SimpleDiff.listCharToString( Arrays.asList(listChar) ), "toto" );
+	}
+	
+
+
+}
+