The extreme ease with which Java .class files can be reconstructed into Java sources that closely resemble the originals has a lot to do with Java byte-code design goals and trade-offs.

Consequently, a Java byte code is decoded in the instruction decoder, turned into an ARM instruction, and immediately executed. By doing so, no element of JIT runtime compilation is involved.

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Java was released in 1995 as a portable language (using the marketing slogan “Write once, run anywhere”) that is compiled to byte code for the JVM and then interpreted, similarly to the Pascal ...

Here's my problem: I need to scan through the byte array returned by decrypting a .pdf and replace some hard-coded values in the file before sending it along to a servlet response.<BR><BR>In Perl ...