In my previous article on this topic, I had given an scenario which justified the use of the decompiler. I have now remembered a much better example.
A customer had problems after upgrading Weblogic 8.1sp2 to 8.1sp3. His JSP - which was rather large - suddenly stoped working with ‘method exceeds 64K’ messages. The JSP [...]
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You don’t normally get to hear the near-famous people fighting. Usually, they have their responses polished or they agree to disagree. Not so in this recent podcast on Google’s AutoLink from the ITConversations.
In this one, both Robert Scobble and Cory Doctorow lose their cool and start really throwing words around without listening to each other. [...]
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Andrew Savory(?) writes that if you have to stoop to decompiling a product to figure out a problem, it is the vendor’s fault because they chose not to supply you with the code and documentation. So, if the vendor does not provide the source and the particular functionality is not well explained, it is completely [...]
Mike Clark is looking at automatic first-line support by building some auto-support functionality straight into the program. It is an article worth reading.
One thing that the article does mention - in a somewhat negative way - is the ’secret’ checklist the developer would go through to troubleshoot the application. He suggests that the ’secret’ checklist [...]
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