# Java Decompilers

Martin Lajoie (mailroom@quest.com)
Wed, 09 Jul 1997 11:49:10 PDT

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    Date: Wed, 09 Jul 1997 11:49:10 PDT

    From: <mailroom@quest.com>

    To: jre-comments@web2.javasoft.com, jdk-comments@web2.javasoft.com,

    Subject: Java Decompilers

To anyone out there that knows the answer and hopefully a solution:

We have posted to several java e-mail groups at Sun with no respones so
this is an attempt to find someone that can or will answer this question.

We are about ready to release several products based solely on Java as both
Applets and Applications but have a major concern with the protection of
these products. Before putting them up on our website for easy download by
anyone in the world we need some answers.

With the public domain Mocha still out there and MANY commercially
supported good and new Java Decompilers on the market, is there some code
or a technique to thwart ALL of these products? If yes, where can this
information or code be found? If no, then how can a software company get
reasonable technical protection from reverse engineering of their Java
product? Sorry, but copyright is just not enough protection especially
with the International nature of the Internet and weakness of protection
offshore.

Thanks in advance for any good and resourceful responses to this message.

Quest Systems WebMaster
webmaster@quest.com

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