Cracking Java programs Part1: In this tutorial I've posted links to homepage of some JAVA obfuscators and java to exe convertors, you may use these programs to protect some jars and see what these protections do.
Before you start take a look at these: 1. Java Virtual Machine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Virtual_Machine 2. JAVA Byte Code: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Java_Programming/Byte_Code (also included in the tutorial archive)
Contents: 1. JAR archive 1.1 Digitally signed JAR archives 1.2 How a jar archive can be executed? 1.3 Get a jar archive from an exe
2. Java classes (.class extension) 2.1 Decompiling java classes 2.2 Finding dependencies between classes 2.3 Many jar archives - how we find in which one is a class? 2.4 ProGuard Java Obfuscator
3. Cracking java programs 3.1 JAVA opcodes (most important of them) 3.1 Finding the check after strings 3.2 Most important JAVA APIs, these also can be used for finding the check
