Until JVM architecture changes to, say, support class decoding inside native code, you will be better off with traditional obfuscators that perform byte-code transformations.

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Java was released in 1995 as a portable language (using the marketing slogan “Write once, run anywhere”) that is compiled to byte code for the JVM and then interpreted, similarly to the Pascal ...