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From: hall@aplcenmp.apl.jhu.edu (Marty Hall)
Subject: Re: Any news from Harlequin or CMU?
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Organization: JHU/APL Research Center, Hopkins P/T CS Faculty
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Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 18:14:00 GMT
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In article <4u897t$6pu@cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu> sef@CS.CMU.EDU
(Scott Fahlman) writes: 
>However, if all you have is the Java
>byte-codes and not the sources, it will probably require some kind of
>IDL to describe the interfaces.  C++ has the same problem.

I'd be interested in what features of the Java source are hard to
recover from the bytecodes. I have no experience with this myself, but
the existence of free tools like "Mocha" which do an amazingly
accurate job of recreating the source from bytecodes (to many author's
consternation :-) made me think you could go a long way.

					- Marty
