The authors suggest that making the immutable class final would be one way to deal with a situation in which “malicious code may try to subclass an immutable class” and “masquerade” as its ...

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. Among ...

The compiler can also add additional code to the program if required. Java compiler and bytecode. After compiling the source code (a .java file), the compiler generates intermediate object code called ...