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It's an unfortunate fact of using a language like Java that your distributable binaries are easily decompiled. We've all seen tools like JAD which can decompile arbitrary bytecode into perfectly readable Java source in milliseconds. While cool people writing open source software don't need to worry about this (why reverse engineer the source when you can just download it?), companies distributing closed-source software *do* have a problem with this sort of accessibility. Thus, bytecode obfuscators are born.