For example, as a post-compilation step you could massage the .class data to make the byte code either harder to read when decompiled or harder to decompile into valid Java code (or both).

This article presents an extension to BeanShell that turns scripts into real Java classes that support inheritance, Java reflection, method overriding, and so on. The extension is designed to be ...

It's not easy to design hardware technology to execute in a Java technology world. For example, the Java byte code language is fundamentally a stack-based language, and mounting a stack-based language ...

Not anymore. Last year, [Michael] wrote Java Grinder, a Java byte-code compiler that compiles classes into assembly language instead of being part of a JVM. This effectively turns Java from a Just ...