The Third Bit

Godfrey Nolan: Decompiling Java. APress, 2004, 1590592654, 264 pages.

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I was excited when
I read the description of this book on APress’s site, since
decompilation is one of those subjects (like debugging and linking)
that has been crying out for a good book for years. Unfortunately,
this book isn’t good: it rambles, it repeats itself, and too many of
the decompilers it references are out of date or have vanished
completely. This isn’t just the author’s fault—better editing would
have made a different as well—but for now, if you want to make sense
of this particular corner of the programming world, you should look
for some other guide than this.

Greg Wilson Books