Most of the replies have focussed on code but to my mind graphics are the biggest
weakness of visually oriented midlets such as games. If you can get hold of the jar
file then it is relatively easy to create a new version of the application with different
graphics. Similarly if the application is largely data driven (for example level data)
then would be hackers only need to reverse engineer your data not your
application.
A similar situation was common in the early days of arcade games whereby a new
game would be produced by reverse engineering the roms of an existing game and
simply modifying the sprite graphics and/or level data.
Steve Oldmeadow
Received on Tue Sep 2 07:21:08 2003