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Third USENIX Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies (COOTS), 1997

Krakatoa: Decompilation in Java (Does Bytecode Reveal Source?)

Todd A. Proebsting, Scott A. Watterson
The University of Arizona

Abstract

This paper presents our technique for automatically decompiling Java bytecode into Java source. Our technique reconstructs source-level expressions from bytecode, and reconstructs readable, high-level control statements from primitive goto-like branches. Fewer than a dozen simple code-rewriting rules reconstruct the high-level statements.
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