A great tool for digging into obscure jar and class files. I used it many times to track down very obscure bugs in Java based products. Often you will have a vendor saying that your issue is not real or not reproducible on their end. But with this kind of tool you can peek behind the curtains and figure out how to trigger some condition 100% of the time.
this isn't really the case. a lot of legacy code may still be running the version it was developed against, but java 17+ has a sizable share of the ecosystem now that all of the popular libraries require it. spring for example bumped their baseline to jdk 17 in 2022.
Didn't Oracle drop support for Java 8 like six years ago? I'm sure there are plenty of companies still running it, but even Apple (a relatively conservative company in this regard) updated to Java 11 when I was there in ~2019.
More modern choices are JADX (https://github.com/skylot/jadx) or Vineflower (https://github.com/Vineflower/vineflower). If you want a paid, higher-quality option, try JEB (https://www.pnfsoftware.com/).
This one haven't been updated for 5 years and do not support any newer java features.
Vineflower is probably what you want nowadays
A great tool for digging into obscure jar and class files. I used it many times to track down very obscure bugs in Java based products. Often you will have a vendor saying that your issue is not real or not reproducible on their end. But with this kind of tool you can peek behind the curtains and figure out how to trigger some condition 100% of the time.
It had better be really old Java code. This decompiler supports only through Java 8. We're on Java 24 now.
Java 8 is your everyday corporate code ...
this isn't really the case. a lot of legacy code may still be running the version it was developed against, but java 17+ has a sizable share of the ecosystem now that all of the popular libraries require it. spring for example bumped their baseline to jdk 17 in 2022.
Didn't Oracle drop support for Java 8 like six years ago? I'm sure there are plenty of companies still running it, but even Apple (a relatively conservative company in this regard) updated to Java 11 when I was there in ~2019.
No. It's still supported for paying customers:
> Java SE subscribers will receive JDK 8 updates until at least December 2030
https://github.com/corretto/corretto-8/blob/develop/CHANGELO...
Amazon still supporting Java 8
Nope, we are on Java 25