[Image] [Image] Read the c|net article on Mocha and its follow-up, Some love it... if you don't mind a one-sided view. I want to thank you for writing and distributing that software. I deleted a source file today and remembered a The Javology news considering your tool. I was very article is rather happy when your tool recreated almost more balanced. a one to one version of my former source file. The NetlyNews (Otto K.) blames it all on my tongue. Mocha is an interesting product. In cases where a library doesn't have My own point of source code, it lets me debug view symbolically!! is published by (Jerry S.) the UK Java I say again... you have dome a Experience. tremendous service to Java programmers. Having readable sources [Image] for transparent libraries is a real advantage. Thanks VERY MUCH. When and if you decide to go shareware with it, please let me know so I can be your first customer :-) (Bob D.) Your tool caused quite a stir here at JavaSoft -- I wanted to be the first to congratulate you on a very effective and useful tool. (A.) There are right and wrong ways to use anything, and I think that this is a great tool to help more people go towards the right ways... (Aubrey Alexander) If decompilers are outlawed, then only outlaws will have decompilers. (Tracy Bierman, Roger Wright, and many others) Mocha was rated [Image] "Cool" by Gamelan, the major Java The most dangerous thing we can do resource listing. with something like Mocha is to repress it. Mocha is a symptom, not the disease: repress it, and the underlying problems continue to fester beneath the surface. It is better to face up to the fact that Java bytecodes can be decompiled, and build a sound business plan with that in mind; anything less is simply self-delusion. (Eugene O'Neil) Some hate it... We suspect that your product is going to open up a hornets nest of trouble. (Peter M.) I am just writing to say how disgusted I am with your program. I just decompiled one of my own classes and the source code produced was better than the original...:-) How dare you sir! (David G.) [Image] add or withdraw a quote