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diff --git a/java/apache-bcel/pkg-descr b/java/apache-bcel/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..8f0aaa1bb500 --- /dev/null +++ b/java/apache-bcel/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +The Byte Code Engineering Library (formerly known as JavaClass) is +intended to give users a convenient possibility to analyze, create, +and manipulate (binary) Java class files (those ending with +.class). Classes are represented by objects which contain all the +symbolic information of the given class: methods, fields and byte code +instructions, in particular. + +Such objects can be read from an existing file, be transformed by a +program (e.g. a class loader at run-time) and dumped to a file +again. An even more interesting application is the creation of classes +from scratch at run-time. The Byte Code Engineering Library (BCEL) may +be also useful if you want to learn about the Java Virtual Machine +(JVM) and the format of Java .class files. + +BCEL is already being used successfully in several projects such as +compilers, optimizers, obsfuscators and analysis tools, the most +popular probably being the Xalan XSLT processor at Apache. + +WWW: http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-bcel/ |