Craig McClanahan,
>
>Being able to decompile a class file presumes that you can read the bytecodes of the
>class file, right?
>
Assumming the hacker was able to get the class file and wish to decompile.
>The recommended placement for class files in a web application is the WEB-INF/classes
>or WEB-INF/lib directory in a web application based on the servlet 2.2 or later
>specification. There is an additional
>requirement in this spec -- the servlet container is not allowed to serve any file
>under WEB-INF in response to a client request. Therefore, your putative hacker
>cannot get ahold of the bytecodes of your
>servlets (unless you happen to store them someplace else in your document root, which
>would be a "bad thing"), and they can therefore not decompile your classes.
On what platform and what web-server does WEB-INF located? where do i get more
information on this? Thanks
Jack
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