Java Bytecode Disassembler

The first part of this thesis studies the fundamental principles of Java Virtual Machine and presents in depth look at its instruction set and . class file format, both together well known as bytecode . The next part presents an overview of the existing tools for bytecode manipulation . The last part of this work describes the development of a new plugin for Eclipse IDE . This plugin allows the user to get more comfortable view of the given bytecode and to see the original source code from which the bytecode was generated . The plugin requires the source code to be accessible so it is not a typical decompilation tool