Abstract
When corel bought WordPerfect for almost $200 million from the Novell Corporation in the mid 1990s, nobody would have thought that in a matter of months they would have been giving away the source code free. However, when Corel ported WordPerfect to Java and released it as a beta product, a simple program called Mocha1 could quickly and easily reverse engineer, or decompile, significant portions of Corel’s Office for Java back into source code.
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Nolan, G. (2004). Introduction. In: Decompiling Java. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0739-9_1
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