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List Of Free Java Decompilers

A list of free Java decompilers.

Posted at 03:59PM Apr 25, 2009 by Adam Bien in General |  Comments[5]  | Views/Hits: 10090



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another very good decompiler http://java.decompiler.free.fr/
just drop your jars in the window and browse the code

Posted by mbien on April 25, 2009 at 04:42 PM CEST #

My best experiences are with JD (link of mbien) as well.
Most (all ?) of the older decompilers linked in the list can't handle JDK5-classes.

Posted by stefan hansel on April 25, 2009 at 06:28 PM CEST #

usefull website

Posted by Patrick on April 25, 2009 at 06:30 PM CEST #

http://java-source.net/open-source/bytecode-libraries is a nice list of related tools for bytecode manipulation, includes some decompilers as well.

Posted by Patrick Wright on April 25, 2009 at 08:17 PM CEST #

I am looking for free open source java decompilers. any suggestions?

I can't afford commercial products ;)

Posted by John Smith on September 10, 2010 at 01:19 PM CEST #

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m.a. wrote:

and i do not understand unbiased opinion in this comparision! It's completely biased



m.a. wrote:

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Laurent wrote:

@Daniel
I also put Interface and Implementation in the same package but I always create 2 separate modules (one with the contract and one wit[...]

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@Itoctopus,

"Are there any compatibility issues with current applications running on regular Tomcat?"

I'm not aware of[...]

Dany wrote:

Hi Adam,
Can interceptor annotations be disabled at runtime ?
If the interceptor is used only for logging then how could be avoided the [...]

Cristina Laura Prohaska wrote:

Hi,

Managed to bypass the error, I have tested using a browser GET.
One more error i have when running imqums in a cluster GF env[...]

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Hi Adam,

Are there any compatibility issues with current applications running on regular Tomcat?

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This is indeed very discouraging. I faced the same problem when working with local EJB - the simple stateless bean implementing some non-ejb inter[...]

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Hi,
I manage to deploy the war archive and have the url http://localhost:38080/ums/ running.
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