RE: Decompile - Protecting source

From what I understand about decompiling, because I have seen it on Java

forums before, it could only ever give you machine generated variable names
and the like (i.e. instead of CUSTNUM it would be @V000001 - which would
make it hard to make sense of).  

Right now I am not convinced that my code would be "safe" without a license
agreement because it sounds like there ARE some ways to decompile or somehow
reveal the contents of a program.

Thanks for your response Rory,
Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Rory Hewitt
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 12:13 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: Decompile - Projecting source

Aaron,

It may be possible for someone to decompile your source, but the cost to do
so would probably be prohibitive.

Rory