Also known as the Java class file disassembler, the command-line javap tool will output pertinent information about any compiled Java class it is asked to inspect. By default, it simply spits out the ...

This is demonstrated in the next screen snapshot. In this example, a class was declared as public with the name Person, but was saved in a file called Person2.java.

Java would get an API for processing Java class files, under a proposal afoot in the Java community. The draft classfile API proposal calls for provision of an API for parsing, generating, and ...