On Friday, December 6, 2002, at 01:00  AM, Gustavo Pistoia wrote:

> Hi.
>   Is there any possibility to protect the source code?
>   I'm thinking to implement an application for a client, but I don't
> want them to see the code.
>   I have a lot of tools in Java to build this application

Then of course, you likely know about the excellent decompilers for 
Java as well.  Its getting practically impossible to keep source code 
unavailable these days.

I've personally given up trying.