Add to that PHP and ASP and other assemblers are just augmentations… but if it’s in encrypted source code (there are many ways to do that) you’re really toast. Giving some example code or the website address or something similar might be the only way you can get an answer from us. Even trusting a single person directly and showing them what you are seeing would be helpful without making it available to everyone. My two bits. > On Nov 24, 2017, at 10:06 PM, Clug <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote: > > From your reply to Ryan, it looks like you have full access. > > Here's the thing: reverse-engineering implies you have an executable and you're trying to figure out how it works. This is not the case here. You have a Java program, and some HTML and CSS files. > > There's no reverse engineering here - you have the Java code, so you have to look at it and see what it does. The only advice anyone can give you for this is "Learn to understand Java". This could mean learning Java, or being good at some other language. However, if you want to *extend* the project, "Learn Java" is pretty much where you have to go. > > HTML and CSS are absolutely NOT programming languages. HTML is a markup language, that basically makes text look pretty and interconnected. CSS is a way to povide HTML with consistent style. If your web app is entirely Java, it's likely the HTML and CSS are just there to call it, so you probably don't need to change them. Still, useful to know the basics of how those work, too. But since they're not programming languages, that's a lot easier. > > On Fri, 24 Nov 2017, o1bigtenor wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 9:57 PM, Clug <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote: >> If you have actual access to the webserver, you can probably >> just look at it. Not really reverse-engineering - most web >> applications are written in a scripting language. >> >> If you can't login, you can't really "reverse-engineer" as much >> as, well, guess. >> I pay a subscription so I think I have access to all the publicly available >> stuff. >> Dee >> > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list