How to prevent jar decompilation

Question

I have created a plugin project in Eclipse, distributed as a jar. The user can take this jar and decompile it using JAD. Is there any way so that i can stop the decompilation of a jar file? Or, at least, to hide my source code from the user?

Answer 1

The best way to stop your jar from being decompiled is to give users no reason to want to. Obfuscation is just a bandaid. In fact, some people will probably reverse it just for the challenge if it's famous enough.