java program privacy

I have not seen a decompiler for netbeans yet. If you are distributing an app you will just want to make the class files available not the source java files. You can also get code obfucators which will make decompiling the class files more difficult. All apps, no matter what language they are written in, can be reverse engineered.

"... we should have such an empire for liberty as she has never surveyed since the creation ..."
Thomas Jefferson

There is no way to prevent it. However, they won't be able to see your exact code. I don't think variable names and the likes are saved. One way is to write extremely hard to understand code . I've seen a watermark thing for java applications which allows you to see whether someone took your code or not, but I don't have a link offhand.

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[edited by - brassfish89 on January 2, 2004 5:49:05 PM]