java .class file dcompilation

[Shrinivas Mujumdar]

hello friends,
i do have a decompiler for java which gives me .java file from .class file, so what about the security issues?, is there any api or tool thr' which i can stop the decompilation.

thanks in advance

shrinivas

[Nigel Browne]

You might find this useful in answering your question.
[ March 09, 2005: Message edited by: Nigel Browne ]

[Lee Barney]

It sounds like what you are asking about is refered to as an obfuscator. If you use google with the query java java obfuscation you should get a list of for cost and free/open source solutions

[Alexandru Popescu]

Security issue is very different from source code protection (for example Linux OS is open source and is having less security issues than other os-s)

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[ March 09, 2005: Message edited by: Ali Pope ]