Q: If I encrypt my .class files and use a custom classloader to load and decrypt them on the fly, will this prevent decompilation? A: The problem of preventing Java byte-code decompilation is almost ...

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Java's embedded difficulties start with memory requirements. Traditionally, programmers, write Java code that a compiler translates into machine-independent Java “byte codes” (Figure 1). At runtime, a ...