RE: Why obtusify

2005-08-03 Thread Max Cooper
You can still decompile it. I am not aware of any technologies that completely prevent decompilation. It is just harder to make sense of the decompiled code when it has been obfuscated. The Zelix home page has a nice short "here's what you get" look at what decompiled code looks like if you wish t

RE: Why obtusify

2005-08-03 Thread Leon Rosenberg
besides obfuscated code is usually faster, because class names and variable names are shorter and easier to load, and also debug info is removed... On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 07:28 +0100, Mark Benussi wrote: > In answer to your question. Obfuscation is a way of compiling your source > code so that it

RE: Why obtusify

2005-08-02 Thread Mark Benussi
In answer to your question. Obfuscation is a way of compiling your source code so that it cannot be decompiled. This is useful if you supply code to someone of host your code on a shared server. -Original Message- From: netsql [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 August 2005 22:40 To: user@

Re: Why obtusify

2005-08-02 Thread erikweber
You mean obfuscate? What if you distribute your server side code? Maybe Struts Actions aren't worthy of obfuscation, but middleware often is. I just run all jars through Zelix before I release. It has ant integration (works great), so I just have Zelix produce my "dist" jars via ant. Erik ---