Preface
Decompiling Java was originally published in 2004 and, for a number of reasons, became more of an esoteric book for people interested in decompilation rather than anything approaching a general programming audience.
When I began writing the book way back in 1998, there were lots of applets on websites, and the thought that someone could download your hard work and reverse-engineer it into Java source code was a frightening thought for many. But applets went the same way as dial-up, and I suspect that many readers of this book have never seen an applet on a web page.
After the book came out, I realized that the only way someone could decompile your Java class files was to first hack into your web server and download them from there. ...
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