Ramon, Sukesh
Also rather a moot point - you would have to deploy the raw XML in
order to load them and then make them deployed - so someone could hack
that
Yes, this is a possibility - but then again we are talking about deterring people, not making it bullet-proof (I wonder if the latter is possible at all).
If the classes are served in some form of encrypted format, perhaps you could load them by creating your own "CDL" which is decrypted by your setup and maybe use direct creation via %Dictionary instead of loading from XML. And you can still mark as deployed later on.
The only realistic way (its the way George James does it) is to make stub classes that call routines andthe routines are shipped on object code only - but the overhead in doing this is large
Just thought about this: the overhead would be large unless you can automate the "export" of method code to routines ;)
