JAD (software)

JAD

Developer(s)	Pavel Kouznetsov
Initial release	Before 1999
Stable release	1.5.8g / 2006
Written in	C++
Operating system	Cross-platform
Available in	English
Type	Software engineering
License	Free for non-commercial use (Copyright: Pavel Kouznetsov)
Website	Original Jad site, including downloads at the Wayback Machine (archived 14 February 2008)

Jad (Java Decompiler) is, as of August 2011, an unmaintained decompiler for the Java programming language. Jad provides a command-line user interface to extract source code from class files.

See also

• Java Decompiler
• Mocha

References

• Hamilton, James; Danicic, Sebastian (2009). An Evaluation of Current Java Bytecode Decompilers. Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, 2009. SCAM '09. Ninth IEEE International Working Conference on. pp. 129–136. doi:10.1109/SCAM.2009.24.
• Naeem, N.A.; Batchelder, M.; Hendren, L. (2007). Metrics for Measuring the Effectiveness of Decompilers and Obfuscators. Program Comprehension, 2007. ICPC '07. 15th IEEE International Conference on. pp. 253–258. doi:10.1109/ICPC.2007.27.
• Kuo, Jong-Yih; Chu, Louisa (2005). Intelligent code analyzer for online course management system. Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications, 2005. Third ACIS International Conference on. pp. 228–234. doi:10.1109/SERA.2005.47.
• Miecznikowski, J.; Hendren, L. (2001). Decompiling Java using staged encapsulation. Reverse Engineering, 2001. Proceedings. Eighth Working Conference on. pp. 368–374. doi:10.1109/WCRE.2001.957845.
• Tam, V.; Gupta, R.K. (2000). Using class decompilers to facilitate the security of Java applications!. Web Information Systems Engineering, 2000. Proceedings of the First International Conference on. 1. pp. 153–158. doi:10.1109/WISE.2000.882387.