Best Java Decompiler

Reverse engineering is becomes a necessity every now and then. When it comes to java decompilation, there are several available in the wild that do it pretty well but the problem: Most of them are either paid or non-gui based with little IDE integration.

Till recently, I was using DJ decompiler, which is just a GUI on top of the jad command line utility.

But here comes a new Java decompiler which might kick off others from the competition: JD. Available both as native client (exe) and Eclipse plugin. I tried both of them, and I must admit, it’s pretty neat.

The native client has no dependencies decompiles Java classes out of the box with inbuilt Type searches, browsing much like eclipse does.

Main Features:

* Written in C++. This allows an extremely fast decompilation and a display.
* Doesn’t need Java runtime environment for its functioning, hence works out of the box.
* JD-Core works with most compilers: jdk1.1.8, jdk1.3.1, jdk1.4.2, jdk1.5.0, jdk1.6.0, jikes-1.22, harmony-jdk-r533500, jrockit90_150_06 and more.
Supports most JDK 5 features
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