Re: Best class decompiler?
On Sun, 4 Jul 2010, Joshua Cranmer wrote:
On 07/04/2010 01:09 PM, Tom Anderson wrote:
It is utterly frustrating that there is no current java decompiler that
is either (a) open source or (b) written in java!
Well, there's JODE: open source and written in Java. But it fails
miserably when you start throwing in finally and synchronized blocks; it
also appears to have problems determining control structure if you have
enough nested loops.
Hmph. Thus proving my barn-raising hypothesis to be false. Oh well.
In any case, interest in decompiling has significantly waned over the
past decade or so. A project or two on sourceforge claim to support Java
5 decompilation, but I haven't tested it in depth.
I wonder if the driver of the fall of decompilation is the rise of open
source, and perhaps also open standards. If your landscape consists of,
say, the JDK, JBoss, Spring, and Hibernate, then there are easier and more
reliable ways to get hold of source code than decompilation.
tom
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