RE: Java Decompilation

["Allan Marks" <allanmarks@msn.com>]

You might try SoThink's SourceTec Java Decompiler decompiler
(http://www.srctec.com/decompiler/), or NMI's Java Code Viewer
(http://www.trinnion.com/javacodeviewer/), which puts a GUI interface on the
SourceTec product.

SourceTec's decompiler is based on Mocha, but their product info states that
they've included "patches" to add extended functionality.  Seems to work
better for some of my trickier class files.

If your classes include any inner classes (i.e. files with a '$' in the
filename), I don't believe that either of these decompilers will help you --
you'll need to do some manual intervention to get these to work.  And if the
class files were generated with an "obfuscator", they will generate source
code for you, but it will be virtually unreadable.

Good luck!
Allan


-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Fowler [mailto:cfowler@outpostsentinel.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 3:22 PM
To: ajug-members@ajug.org
Subject: Java Decompilation


I'm trying to deompile one class files out of a package with 20 class
files.  I've tried jad and mocha and neither produce code that can
be recompiled.  Is there a product that can allow me to decompile a class
make modifications then recompile it?

Thanks,
Chris