Re: best obfuscator

On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:36:10 -0000, Daniel Pitts <googlegroupie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jan 31, 7:31 am, "schw" <schwa...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi

which of the following obfuscators is the "best" you think?

ProGuardProGuard

ProGuard

JODE

JavaGuard

RetroGuard

yGuard

cheers
paw


None. If you feel the need to obfuscate your code, then you probably
aren't a very experience programmer. And that being the case, your
code is either not worth steal, and/or already obfuscated.

Obfuscation may not be as useful as some people would believe but it's certainly not worthless. Besides the marginal protection it gives to your intellecutal property (your intellect, your employer's property), a key benefit is the shrinking that can be achieved. It is not unusual to reduce the size of compiled code by up to 50% by running it through an obfuscator. This shrinking is all but essential for J2ME development where storage is limited and downloads are often paid for by the kilobyte. While not as critical for JavaSE, it can still reduce the download times of applets and web-start applications.

Dan.

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