> From: Jeng Yu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I just wanted to know if I can first obfuscate my
> selvlet
> with ProGuard before I deploy it in Tomcat
> environment.
As long as ProGuard doesn't hack around with the servlet interface calls, you
should have no problem. However, I've never tried.
> Will doing this really protect my servlet
No.
> and make it
> really difficult for someone to reverse engineer or
> decompile it, as people seem to say?
Obfuscation makes it *more* difficult to reverse engineer, as (for example) the
names of functions and types no longer give any clues. However, if there's
enough information in the code to run it, there's enough to reverse engineer it.
It's like installing better locks on your house: fewer thieves will get in, but
a determined thief will always do so. Generally via a way you didn't think of.
For example, have you defended against someone breaking in and stealing the
machine with your source code on? ;-)
- Peter
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