Decompiling a Java .CLASS file?

[clamum]

I accidentally f'ed up one of the source files to a Java project I have to do for a class. I was trying to tar up some files and forgot the name of the tar file, which ended up being the name of a .java file so it got hosed.

Anyway, I still have the .class file so I would like to try to decompile it instead of re-typing the thing over again. It's not a huge file, but I'm guessing decompiling would be easier.

Does anyone know of any good, and free, software that will do this? Thanks.

 

[kamper]

I think this one has worked for me before but it wasn't on a recent version of java. No idea how it'd handle 1.5. It seems like everyone and his dog wanted to write a decompiler 10 years ago and they've mostly gone out of date Being such a simple little tool, I think it should come with the jdk.

 

[Argo]

jad.exe worked for me in the past. It doesn't work too well with 1.5 java (gives some warnings) but the source code appears to be ok.

 

[clamum]

Thanks guys. I tried JAD out and despite a message saying the class file version wasn't supported, JAD converted it to a .java file. I'll have to change around about a quarter of the code but it will be better than re-writing the assignment.