From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2008-01-04T02:37:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Where's the bytecode from Ruby 1.9

On Jan 3, 2008 11:26 AM, James Dinkel <jdinkel@bucoks.com> wrote:
> Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
> >
> > In JRuby's case, we do support dumping bytecode to disk as Java .class
> > files. This would be roughly equivalent to Python's pyc files. And
> > although you can decompile Java bytecode, you'd end up decompiling it to
> > a mishmash of JRuby internal calls...it would be quite a bit harder to
> > decompile all the way to Ruby.
> >
> > - Charlie
>
> Waitaminute.  So if I have a paid-for application from some company and
> they wrote it in java, it would be possible for me to decompile it into
> the sourcecode?

Yep, try googling "java decompiler"
-- 
Rick DeNatale

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