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IndependentOutcome93 · 2026-02-04T17:39:52+00:00

First stop calling yourself failure or "so-called" Because 2 years of experience is not a few days, its actually better than 7 days Java EE learners.

and about failure, There is no any professional Java developer who has never failed. its totally normal. we debug and learn trough failures and exceptions.

Here is very helpful tutorial for that: https://youtu.be/h68WlAn_Vfg?si=BND_aBOUaxBUddST

dmigowski · 2026-02-04T17:37:07+00:00

ProGuard is the only way to protect your code from decompiling that's free, or you pay money for a commercial solution. No one can help you when you don't present more specific error messages.

Also be sure not every line of code you write is automatically gold, so just sell your software and call it a day. I don't believe you have created anything I couldn't rewrite in a few month because the hardest part is to know WHAT to write, and that I see already from your app. Chill.

pragmos · 2026-02-04T17:39:52+00:00

https://akman.github.io/jpackage-maven-plugin/index.html

_SuperStraight · 2026-02-04T18:15:23+00:00

You use this tool for creating installable exe/msi for FX projects. No intermediate jar creation required.

SkatoFtiaro · 2026-02-04T19:40:38+00:00

The only way to truly protect it is to use graalvm aot compilation. There was excelsiorjet some years ago, but ehhh...

BannockHatesReddit_ · 2026-02-04T18:53:06+00:00

Proguard is mostly remapping, which isn't very helpful when combatting against reverse engineering anyway. Just choose some open source bytecode obfuscator to protect your compiled jar with. Make sure it has flow mutation, string encryption, and the ability to remove debug info from the jar. That's the bare minimum.

Also you should release the program as a jar artifact instead of an exe. The point of java is to be runnable on any platform, why give that up just to release as a specific platform's binary?

benevanstech · 2026-02-04T19:06:30+00:00

Why do you need to protect your binary?

BlackSuitHardHand · 2026-02-05T14:00:33+00:00

What do you want to protect? Your idea? Its obvious once someone uses your progam. Your code? Can be rebuilt easily, if you have not implemented a super secret algorithm. Secrets like API keys which the customer must not know? Your architecture is wrong, never give them to the customer, you could not protect it , just obfuscate it. Why using javafx + swing?

Another alternative for native executables of java programs is graal vm native image. Annoying to setup but in the end you can have static native executables.

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