JAD (software)

JAD
Developer(s)Pavel Kouznetsov
Initial releaseBefore 1999; 25 years ago (1999)
Stable release
1.5.8g / 2006; 18 years ago (2006)
Written inC++
Operating systemCross-platform
Available inEnglish
TypeSoftware engineering
LicenseFree for non-commercial use (Copyright: Pavel Kouznetsov)
WebsiteOriginal Jad site, including downloads at the Wayback Machine (archived 14 February 2008)

Jad (Java Decompiler) is, as of August 2011, an unmaintained decompiler for the Java programming language.[1] Jad provides a command-line user interface to extract source code from class files.

  1. ^ Hamilton, James; Danicic, Sebastian (2009). An Evaluation of Current Java Bytecode Decompilers (PDF). Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, 2009. SCAM '09. Ninth IEEE International Working Conference on. pp. 129–136. doi:10.1109/SCAM.2009.24.