Jad (Java Decompiler) is, as of August 2011, an unmaintained decompiler for the Java programming language.[1] Jad provides a command-line user interface to extract source code from class files.

JAD
Developer(s)Pavel Kouznetsov
Initial releaseBefore 1999; 25 years ago (1999)
Stable release
1.5.8g / 2006; 18 years ago (2006)
Written inC++
Operating systemCross-platform
Available inEnglish
TypeSoftware engineering
LicenseFree for non-commercial use (Copyright: Pavel Kouznetsov)
WebsiteOriginal Jad site, including downloads at the Wayback Machine (archived 14 February 2008)

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  1. ^ Hamilton, James; Danicic, Sebastian (2009). An Evaluation of Current Java Bytecode Decompilers (PDF). 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 (PDF). 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. Vol. 1. pp. 153–158. doi:10.1109/WISE.2000.882387.
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