Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 09:48:15 -0800 From: Cedric Berger <cedric@wireless-networks.com> To: FreeBSD Java mailing list <freebsd-java@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Java ports Message-ID: <3A52145F.5092DD41@wireless-networks.com> References: <20010102122359.A786@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl>
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> Oh, and IMO, a .jar file is definitely a binary distro, it's *not* half-way > between source and binary, it's simply a binary. I've said it's half-way source/binary for the following reasons: 1) James Gosling said that he designed the java bytecode to match the often stack/tree-based intermediate representation you find between the front-end and the back-end of a compiler toolchain. 2) With any of the free java decompiler available, you can very very accurately recreate the full source code of any non-obfuscated jar file. You don't get the comments, but you have *everything* else. Boy, that's useful when, like me, you sometimes lose your sources. So "paranoid" sysadmins like Joshua can review the code. BTW a think the code should always be shipped along with the jar file. 3) You can patch it easily with jardiff or any basic zip tool. Cedric To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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