Decompiling Java bytecode: Problems, traps and pitfalls

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2304, Issue , 2002, Pages 111-127

  Miecznikowski, Jerome ^a   Hendren, Laurie ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROGRAM COMPILERS;

CODE GENERATION; CONTROL FLOWS; JAVA BYTE CODES; JAVA COMPILERS; JAVA EXCEPTIONS; JAVA SOURCE; JAVA VIRTUAL MACHINES; PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 84959039621     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45937-5_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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