HI Rob and Shawn, Thanks for your reply. I am thinking to use ProGuard.Do you have any other open source alternatives. Please let me know if you have used any other? Regards, Allahbaksh
On Dec 9, 9:35 pm, "Rob Coops" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Allahbaksh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > We are distributing an application. We want to obfuscate the server > > side code to the client so that they should not reverse engineer the > > code. Is it works fine? > > > What will happend to servlets? Whether they work fine? > > > Regards, > > Allahbaksh > > Hi Allahbaksh, > > Obfuscating code is not going to stop any determined person from reverse > engineering your code, it might make it slightly more difficult but that is > about it. The code should still work otherwise the obfuscation failed and > you simply broke your own code. > > In the end any and all code you write can be reversed engineered regardless > of obfuscation or any other technique used to make it harder to do so. So in > that respect you will have to look at the cost you make obfuscating your > code as opposed to the risk you run with someone actually taking the trouble > of reverse engineering your code. How much will you loose if someone reverse > engineers your code in a week and how much will you loose if it takes them a > month... you might very well find that the cost of hiding you code is not > worth the money. > > Regards, > > Rob --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
