Can you recommend a Java decompiler for Eclipse? My other questions is what restrictions is there for using a decompiled code from an other Java program? Illegal or what? I dont know much about licenses. Thanks for reading.
class without source default to Class Decompiler Viewer . Now, click on the class or methods, press F3 , and the plugin will automatically decompile the Java class.
The best you can hope for is to make it very hard to read (replace all symbols with combinations of 'l' and '1' and 'O' and '0', put in lots of useless code and so on).
It is impossible use decompilation for original source code reproduction because original code identifiers, such as variable and function names, are rarely stored in computer code. However, code containing metadata or debugging information may include identifiers.
I'd suggest the one that pops up on google, which is the JD Java decompiler. It works really nice.
As for the restrictions, you'd have to read a license of particular software, there might be written that any way of decompilation is forbidden.
I like JadClipse - but it shows its age in places. You will need:
There are several shortcomings:
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