Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/JAD (JAva Decompiler)

JAD (JAva Decompiler)[edit]

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. Clear consensus with new sources. (non-admin closure) Slashme (talk) 09:15, 8 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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This article fails the general notability guideline. It has no independent, reliable sources. Sunfoo (talk) 18:34, 21 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. /wiae /tlk 04:14, 23 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. This is a well-known freeware Java decompiler. At one point it was quite popular, although due to its author abandoning further development it has become quite outdated (it can't handle new features introduced into JVM bytecode and new Java language syntax introduced in more recent Java versions. It is discussed in reliable sources, for example:

Hamilton, James; Danicic, Sebastian (2009). An Evaluation of Current Java Bytecode Decompilers. Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, 2009. SCAM '09. Ninth IEEE International Working Conference on. pp. 129–136. doi:10.1109/SCAM.2009.24.
Naeem, N.A.; Batchelder, M.; Hendren, L. (2007). Metrics for Measuring the Effectiveness of Decompilers and Obfuscators. Program Comprehension, 2007. ICPC '07. 15th IEEE International Conference on. pp. 253–258. doi:10.1109/ICPC.2007.27.
Kuo, Jong-Yih; Chu, Louisa (2005). Intelligent code analyzer for online course management system. Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications, 2005. Third ACIS International Conference on. pp. 228–234. doi:10.1109/SERA.2005.47.
Miecznikowski, J.; Hendren, L. (2001). Decompiling Java using staged encapsulation. Reverse Engineering, 2001. Proceedings. Eighth Working Conference on. pp. 368–374. doi:10.1109/WCRE.2001.957845.
Tam, V.; Gupta, R.K. (2000). Using class decompilers to facilitate the security of Java applications!. Web Information Systems Engineering, 2000. Proceedings of the First International Conference on. Vol. 1. pp. 153–158. doi:10.1109/WISE.2000.882387.

SJK (talk) 09:45, 24 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 02:43, 29 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per sources provided by SJK, but move the article to JAD (software). SSTflyer 01:01, 6 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as this seems convincing enough. SwisterTwister talk 04:57, 8 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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