Applications and Applets - RetroGuard Documentation

Applications

To preserve Java applications (the class name and the main method) from obfuscation so that they can still be accessed and run after obfuscation, add a script line:

This is exactly equivalent to the script line:

We can interprete this line as follows:

• .method - preserve all methods that
• **/main - are named 'main' in all classes in any package ('**' is the package-independent wildcard)
• ([Ljava/lang/String;)V - and that have the specified method signature (in this case, 'takes an array of Strings and returns void')
• and_class - and also preserve each such method's class name.

Applets

To preserve Java applets from obfuscation, add a script line:

This is exactly equivalent to the script line:

This is interpreted as follows:

• .class - preserve all class names that are
• ** - in any package
• extends java/applet/Applet - if the class extends Applet.