how to view CAFEBABE in class file?

[Radiya Sojitrawala]

I opened my .class file in notepad but i dont see cafebabe as the first 4 bytes. what do i need to do?

TIA
Radiya

[Michael Ernest]

You need to dump the file contents in hexadecimal. CAFEBABE is actually 0xcafebabe.

[William Brogden]

One of the reasons I use UltraEdit-32 as a programming editor is the ease of switching between text and hex display. Also handy for finding those annoying "smart" punctuation marks that MS Word leaves in text files.
Bill

[Stan James]

Time to stick up for your favorite text editor ... KEDIT (probably out of business now) also has nice hex view and editing mode. In Windows you can use the ancient DEBUG command, too.

Rename class file to .cla - only seems to recognize 3 char extension!

 
E:\Projects\Java\W2\bin\sswiki>debug sswiki.cla
-d
0B38:0100  CA FE BA BE 00 00 00 31-01 E8 01 00 0D 73 73 77   .......1.....ssw
0B38:0110  69 6B 69 2F 53 53 57 69-6B 69 07 00 01 01 00 10   iki/SSWiki......
0B38:0120  6A 61 76 61 2F 6C 61 6E-67 2F 4F 62 6A 65 63 74   java/lang/Object
0B38:0130  07 00 03 01 00 1C 77 32-2F 65 6E 67 69 6E 65 2F   ......w2/engine/
0B38:0140  49 53 74 61 72 74 53 74-6F 70 4C 69 73 74 65 6E   IStartStopListen
0B38:0150  65 72 07 00 05 01 00 09-6C 6F 67 42 75 66 66 65   er......logBuffe
0B38:0160  72 01 00 1D 4C 63 6F 6D-2F 73 61 78 6D 61 6E 2F   r...Lcom/saxman/
0B38:0170  6C 6F 67 67 65 72 2F 4C-6F 67 42 75 66 66 65 72   logger/LogBuffer
-quit
 
E:\Projects\Java\W2\bin\sswiki>

[Rick O'Shay]

In the old days, ed reigned supreme. Then they came out with those fancy pants multi-line editors and there was no turning back. Currently a huge fan of vi.