I want to develop a commercial web application, I know I can develop this website using PHP and then encode/obfuscate with zend guard php encoder and other tools. If i want to develop this website using java, is it possible to protect the source code ?
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The user never sees the Java source code, they only see generated HTML, JavaScript and CSS – Draken Apr 20 '16 at 15:02
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Possible duplicate of [How to protect compiled Java classes?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2443542/how-to-protect-compiled-java-classes) – manniL Apr 20 '16 at 15:02
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Yes. There are many java obfuscation tools out there. If you must ship/distribute or entrust your java build artifacts (ie a jar, war or ear file) to a 3rd party then you can obfuscate your code, if you wish. This makes it very difficult (but not impossible) to reverse engineer.

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