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+Makefile
+Makefile.in
+configure
+config.log
+config.cache
+config.status
+stamp-h
+libtool
+aclocal.m4
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+Jochen Hoenicke -g
) and there are often more ways to write
+the same thing. But it does its job quite well.
You can donwload the files in zip form.
+The sources contain only the
+java
files, the classes
+contain only the class
files.
I also have a tar.gz file containing only
+the RCS
directories. This is the form I maintain the
+project, but you probably need unix and a few tools to use them.
There are also some snapshots that have new +features like inner and anonymous classes.
+ +Click here to browse the files online. +
+ + + +I have some simple step by step pages. There are three +possibilities: +
There may be situations, where the code doesn't understand complex +expressions. In this many ugly temporary variables are used, but the +code should still be compileable. This does especially happen when +you compile with `-O' flag and javac has inlined some methods.
+ +Sometimes this program may exit with an Exception
or
+produce incorrect code. Most time the code can't be compiled, so that
+it can be easily spotted. If you have one of these problems (except
+those that occur on some of the jode.test
files, I would
+be very interested in a bug report (including the class
+file, if possible).
Sometimes it generates some GOTO
expression and
+labels. This can't be compiled, but shouldn't happen any more with
+javac or jikes.
It doesn't handle inner and anonymous classes, yet. You can
+decompile them separately, though (use `+$
' switch under
+jikes), but there is a bug in javac, so that a final variable is twice
+initialized. If you encounter this problem just remove the doubled
+line by hand.
New! The latest snapshot can handle +inner and anonymous classes.
+ + +Someday I found guavad
, a disassembler for java byte
+code (it does similar things like javap -c
). I used
+it on a class file, and found that it was possible to reconstruct the
+original java code. First I did it by hand on some small routines,
+but I soon realized that it was a rather stupid task, and that I could
+write a perl
script
+that does the same. At the end of the next day I had a working
+decompiler.
Now while it was working, it was not easy to use. You had to
+decompile the code first with a disassembler, cut the method, you
+wanted to decompile and then run the perl script on it. So I decided
+to get some information of the class files and do this all
+automatically. I decided to write it in java
now,
+because it suited best.
Just for the records: the java code is now more than 50 times +bigger than the original perl script and is still growing.
+ +This code is under GNU GPL. That basically means, that you can copy +or modify this code, as long as you put all your modification under +the GPL again. Look +here for the complete license.
+ ++http://www.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/~delwi/jode/jode.html, last +updated on 17-Jun-1999.
+ +